Stalin's Russia/USSR did imprison people for expressions and suspicions of homosexuality, how can that be better than the West also doing that too? A hard labor sentence includes imprisonment for the duration of the sentence.
I really don't like the idea of claiming that they were better than the West (which I'm not even fully convinced of) when there are plenty of positive examples of Communist nations actually being good - Cuba has gender affirming surgery as medically available to all, and some other nations, like Vietnam, Benin, and the People's Republic of the Congo (granted, all a bit later than the USSR) have never criminalized homosexuality.
Not true, individual SSRs quickly recriminalized it after the revolution, and stalin was the last one to follow suit. Stalin also had the first openly gay cabinet official in Europe serving in his government.
So what you're saying is, there was no law against homosexuality in Soviet Russia (because Lenin, a Communist role model I think is a lot better than Stalin, decriminalized it), but then Stalin made one, and then there was.
I think implementations of socialism that are not permissive of all sexual and gender identities are flawed or incomplete implemenatations of socialism. How can a party or a state be of, by, and for the workers, when gay workers don't count?
can we stop stanning Stalin, he enacted 5 years hard labor for homosexuality when there was previously no law against it
Bad, but still better than being imprisoned, chemically castrated, lobotomized or electrocuted in the west.
Stalin's Russia/USSR did imprison people for expressions and suspicions of homosexuality, how can that be better than the West also doing that too? A hard labor sentence includes imprisonment for the duration of the sentence.
I really don't like the idea of claiming that they were better than the West (which I'm not even fully convinced of) when there are plenty of positive examples of Communist nations actually being good - Cuba has gender affirming surgery as medically available to all, and some other nations, like Vietnam, Benin, and the People's Republic of the Congo (granted, all a bit later than the USSR) have never criminalized homosexuality.
Not true, individual SSRs quickly recriminalized it after the revolution, and stalin was the last one to follow suit. Stalin also had the first openly gay cabinet official in Europe serving in his government.
So what you're saying is, there was no law against homosexuality in Soviet Russia (because Lenin, a Communist role model I think is a lot better than Stalin, decriminalized it), but then Stalin made one, and then there was.
No, I'm saying the Caucuses and other republics recriminalized it long before stalin.
being a socialist doesn't mean being progressive.
I think implementations of socialism that are not permissive of all sexual and gender identities are flawed or incomplete implemenatations of socialism. How can a party or a state be of, by, and for the workers, when gay workers don't count?
they can't possibly represent every single minority. they are feminist because women are half the workforce.
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