An ‘almost naked’ party spurs backlash in wartime Russia

A party at a top Moscow nightclub has turned into something not very nice: public humiliation and the threat of arrest.

A party at a top Moscow nightclub has turned into something not very nice: public humiliation and the threat of arrest.

An “almost naked” party at Mutabor, a popular Moscow nightclub, days before Christmas attracted top Russian celebrities, influencers and socialites, some of whom showed up in revealing clothes or underwear. One rapper showed up in only a pair of shoes and a sock on his private parts.

The revelries did not go down well with members of the country’s so-called patriotic community, with photographs and video from the Dec. 20 event sparking indignation from fervent supporters of the invasion of Ukraine. The fierce backlash against the party, which has dominated Russian headlines and social space for a week, reveals how much power the pro-war community has garnered since the Ukraine invasion began in February 2022.

Pro-war lawmakers, propagandists and military bloggers have accused those who attended the party at the nightclub and its organizers of moral corruption while soldiers are dying on the front lines.

“There is a war going on in the country, but these creatures, scum, are organizing all this,” state TV host and top Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “How morally deaf do you have to be?”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/naked-party-russia-ukraine-war-invasion-backlash-rcna131417

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