Marina Butina, 34, was once imprisoned in the US after being charged with “conspiring to work for a foreign government”, but has turned her targets from espionage to the Barbie childrens’ toy because she believes it promotes “LGBT values”
A fanatical pro-Putin MP in Russia is aiming to introduce new legislation banning Barbie dolls in the country.
Marina Butina, 34, once jailed in the US on the espionage charge of “conspiring to work for a foreign government”, wants children to have Russian-made dolls promoting the dictator’s war in Ukraine. Butina slammed the Barbie range, claiming: “A doll that has a female breast and a male sexual organ at the same time is NOT normal.”
The Russian law needed to be changed “urgently”, she said. She also hit out at the Barbie movie arguing it “did not need to be shown because what we see [are] gays, transsexuals, women who took over the world – that is Barbie dolls. “There is nothing about a union [between] a man and a woman, nothing about loveâ¦
“We have our own dollsâ¦Barbie along with the Mattel company should be removed from the market. Because they bring LGBT here. Let them promote [LGBTQ] there [in the West]. We don’t need it.”