Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
that one is complicated honestly, and I know how that sounds. Socialist countries at the time saw the UK as the primary global Satan, and viewed Israel as a loss of a colonial asset. They also assumed Israel would be socialist, and this sounds silly, but they weren't too misguided in believing that. A lot of early Israeli politicians had ideologically socialist leanings, but none of that mattered once it became clear Israel was going to be an apartheid settler state. The USSR made a declaration of support for the Arab struggle against Israel as early as 1955
after 1967 the USSR cut off all diplomacy with Israel and only talked occasionally through the Dutch embassy in Moscow
that one is complicated honestly, and I know how that sounds. Socialist countries at the time saw the UK as the primary global Satan, and viewed Israel as a loss of a colonial asset. They also assumed Israel would be socialist, and this sounds silly, but they weren't too misguided in believing that. A lot of early Israeli politicians had ideologically socialist leanings, but none of that mattered once it became clear Israel was going to be an apartheid settler state. The USSR made a declaration of support for the Arab struggle against Israel as early as 1955
after 1967 the USSR cut off all diplomacy with Israel and only talked occasionally through the Dutch embassy in Moscow