Whenever I see opinion poll maps on :reddit-logo: from Europe with questions like
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Would you be ok with your son/daughter dating a person of a different race?
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Would you be comfortable with your son/daughter dating a member of the same sex?
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My country has too many immigrants, yes or no?
There is always a very noticeable difference between Western and Eastern Europe, with the West (and Scandanavia) being WAY more progressive, and Eastern European / former Soviet states being exceedingly conservative, particularly countries like Czech.
Why is this?
Maybe I'm just naive but I would think that the legacy of the USSR would cause the exact opposite tendency.
I also have no real context as I have never stepped foot in The Old World.
One important factor one should keep in mind is that one of the most powerful factions in the Nazi Party, and arguably the most "socialist" in ideology, was the SA, which was headed by Ernst Rohm, who, along with pretty much all of the upper leadership of the SA, was gay - an open secret at the time. I'm fully convinced that the USSR's reversal on homosexual policy in the 1930s was in large part a reaction to the perceived threat of gay Nazis. Of course, those gay "socialist" leaders were all purged (executed) by Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives.