I'm not sure much has changed. Since the 1930s Russia and Russian communists have always been more conservative on this issue. There was a brief period in the 1920s when there were experimental policies going in the opposite direction but sadly they ended up reversing course not long after. Does this mean that the USSR under Stalin was "Nazbol"? I don't think this is an accurate use of that term. The problem is that while much of the rest of the world has progressed on these issues, Russia remained stuck in that 1930s-1940s attitude on LGBT. This is not just a problem with the Communist Party but more broadly in society and it has a lot to do with the strong influence of the Orthodox church. It's a difficult problem to solve and it doesn't help that the Communist Party is full of old boomers. Calling them "Nazbols" is neither accurate nor helpful. What they are really doing is a form of opportunism, they are tailing the prevailing opinion in society. Are they wrong? Yes of course. But Russian communists are human too and they too are stamped with the culture they grew up in and sometimes have a difficult time discarding deeply ingrained prejudices. On this issue doubly so because they see how it has been weaponized by imperialists to pinkwash political subversion and color revolution.
i dont think it would've been this bad if the USSR still existed, no it wasn't the most progressive with LGBTQ rights but still, the entire Eastern Europe is extremely reactionary on the same. GDR could've been a positive influence.
there have been legitimate improvements in China, Vietnam & Cuba for instance.
True, i think we would have seen more progress on this issue had socialism not fallen in Eastern Europe. For one thing communists would not feel so fragile and threatened by everything Western that they would have this knee-jerk reaction to progressive gender ideas. But seeing as how they have had the experience of losing their socialist societies to the liberal promises of Western propaganda they have become in a way extra suspicious, perhaps even paranoid of any ideas that appear to be in the same vein as those which destroyed socialism. It is undeniable that society has become much more reactionary in Eastern Europe as a result of the counter-revolution's success. Reactionary ideas help the bourgeoisie stay in power after all. Communists should understand this and make an effort to overcome these prejudices instead of taking the tailist route, but that's easy so say when you're an outside observer, harder to do when you're embedded in that society.
