Martsinkevich, who sports a mohawk and often appears bare-chested in his videos, founded Occupy Pedophilia and encouraged his followers to pour urine over their victims' heads to 'cure' them of homosexuality. In an interview with Life News, a website widely believed to have ties to the Russian security services, Martsinkevich explained his objectives: 'I hope that these broken lives – and they really do have broken lives – will be an example to the generation growing up that they shouldn’t behave like that,” he said.īut the group has run into some unexpected resistance - both locally and internationally. Valentin Degteryov is a 43-year-old teacher and former army medic. A resident of Nizhny Tagil, 235 kilometers north of Kamensk-Uralsky, he saw one of the videos on television and looked into the group's activities.
He told RFE/RL that he was appalled by what he discovered.