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      • Hungover [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        USSR was one of the first european nations to decriminalize homosexuality

        and then recriminalize it :cringe:

      • Christ_Lover [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        I fully agree with the approach but I would dump the homosexual relationship decriminalization because the decriminalization was done by abolishing old constitution in favour of Bolshevik one so it was more of an unintentional move rather than a deliberate one

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        At the risk of being called a lib, there are plenty of stains on Stalin's record that we shouldn't be afraid to call out, like the ethnic deportations or the "somewhat excessive" executions of people (and their family members). Just because libs dogmatically demonize Stalin because something something 1984 Animal Farm doesn't mean we should run exactly opposite. Being able to look history critically and materially is supposed to be a distinguishing factor for Marxists.

      • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Some lib subs outright ban you for saying anything remotely good about the USSR (aside from "they killed nazis"), so you have to walk a fine line. I reconsidered unsubbing from a sub when I saw "Lenin was the OG Tankie" getting upvoted.

                • Awoo [she/her]
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                  4 years ago

                  By the way, there are increasing signs that the Russian trials are not faked, but that there is a plot among those who look upon Stalin as a stupid reactionary who has betrayed the ideas of the revolution. Though we find it difficult to imagine this kind of internal thing, those who know Russia best are all more or less of the same opinion. I was firmly convinced to begin with that it was a case of a dictator's despotic acts, based on lies and deception, but this was a delusion.

                  -- Albert Einstein on Stalin's purges and the Moscow Trials at the time they were occurring.