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Stephen Fry has written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Cameron, M. Rogge, Lord Coe and Members of the International Olympic Committee calling for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be taken away from Sochi due to Russia's new anti-gay laws.
I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian "correctively" raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.
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