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.
Stalin did have some black marks during his leadership. This, and the anti-semitic climate when Zhdanov was the Minister of Culture which called for the “strengthening” of Russian culture to resist “rootless cosmopolitanism” (which is code for the Jews).
To be clear, there is no indication that Stalin was anti-semitic himself, but the general notion (at least from what history books tell me) is that he sort of let it happen under him for reasons we can only speculate.
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
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Stalin did have some black marks during his leadership. This, and the anti-semitic climate when Zhdanov was the Minister of Culture which called for the “strengthening” of Russian culture to resist “rootless cosmopolitanism” (which is code for the Jews).
To be clear, there is no indication that Stalin was anti-semitic himself, but the general notion (at least from what history books tell me) is that he sort of let it happen under him for reasons we can only speculate.
Also the the USSR literally recognized Israel under his leadership
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