The military bloc has tried to subvert traditional values in multiple Eastern European nations before, Stevan Gajic has told RT

The LGBTQ "ideology" is "being force-fed to Moldovans" by NATO, which has used similar tactics elsewhere in Eastern Europe in the past, Stevan Gajic has told RT.

A professor of comparative politics at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade, Gajic gave his assessment following a 'pride' rally in the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, on Sunday, where local police brutally assailed counter-demonstrators.

Speaking to RT, he claimed that the latest events in the former Soviet republic have "nothing to do with LGBT rights per se," but rather represent an "imposed agenda, which always has a political component."

"Here LGBT is only a political flag of NATO," he suggested, surmising that the military bloc's endgame is to try to "mobilize" Moldovans to fight against Russia. According to the professor, the bloc has prioritized the "fight against Orthodox Christianity" in countries that border Russia or are situated close to it.

Gajic told RT that President Maia Sandu's government is made up of people who mostly view themselves as bureaucrats, rather than "statesmen" - hence their unquestioning obedience to narratives handed down by the West.

He recalled that scenes similar to the latest events in Moldova have played out in many Eastern European nations in the past couple of decades, all following the same template and being orchestrated by the CIA, the professor claimed.

Gajic also noted that while 'woke' ideology has been out of vogue in the US and much of Western Europe for some time now, NATO continues to use the same old tropes in the East of the continent in pursuit of its ulterior objectives.

Even though the LGBTQ rally in central Chisinau on Sunday had not been authorized by the authorities, police did nothing to stop it. However, law enforcement officers' response to an Orthodox Christian counter-demonstration was markedly different.

Multiple videos said to show the events in the Moldovan capital have been circulating on social media, which depict police officers shoving an Orthodox priest to the ground and forcibly detaining a man holding an infant, among other incidents.

According to Sputnik Moldova, the clashes began after counter-demonstrators tried to breach the police cordons separating them from the LGBTQ rally, with several people reportedly detained in the skirmishes.

The heavy-handed police response to the situation has drawn criticism from the leader of the opposition Revival Party, Natalya Paraska.

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(RT.com)