“Barbie should be removed from the market, along with the Mattel company, because they bring the LGBT agenda here,” said Russian lawmaker Maria Butina.
Butina, a former spy who was convicted and jailed in the United States on charges of conspiring to act as an unregistered foreign agent, called on the iconic dolls to be banned from Russia over the movie. Her remarks come as Moscow cracks down on LGBTQ+ rights, with the State Duma earlier in June passing among the world’s most restrictive laws targeting members of the community.
“What we see [in the Barbie movie] is gays, trans people, and women who have taken over the world, i.e. Barbies,” she said. “There’s nothing about some kind of union, that there can be a man and a woman, about love. There’s nothing about that. That’s basically the whole content [of that movie.]”
She also called for Barbie dolls, as well as the entire Mattel company, to be removed from the market to promote Russian products instead.
“Our common task is to promote our characters. We have our own dolls.
