We’ve Got a Special Place in the Lubyanka …

In certain jurisdictions, there are some things you just don’t want to say. For instance, as Reid Standish of FP reports:

You can drink at a soccer game, you can fight at one, and you can certainly swear at one — just don’t get political. That’s the message that Belarus’s government sent on Friday when the local KGB fined and arrested soccer fans at a qualifying match between Ukraine and Belarus for the 2016 European Championship after they a sang a song comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin to a very sensitive part of the male anatomy.

The headline pretty much says it all.

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