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.
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.