• Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      The devil went down to Georgia,

      he was lookin' for a soul to steal

      He was in a bind 'cause he was way behind

      And he was willin' to make a deal

      When he came across this young priest churning out some verse and writing' it hot

      And the devil jumped up on a hickory stump

      And said, "boy, let me tell you what"

      "I guess you didn't know it but I'm a poet too

      And if you'd care to take a dare, I'll make a bet with you

      Now you write a pretty good sonnet, boy

      But give the devil his due

      I'll bet a bank vault of gold against your soul

      'Cause the bourgeois are better than you"

      The boy said, "my name's Joseph and you might think I'm beat

      But I'll take your bet, you're gonna regret

      'Cause I'll lead the worker's elite"

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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    4 years ago

    can we stop stanning Stalin, he enacted 5 years hard labor for homosexuality when there was previously no law against it

    • GhostOfJackMa [any]
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      4 years ago

      Bad, but still better than being imprisoned, chemically castrated, lobotomized or electrocuted in the west.

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.

        • Anna_KOC [comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          No, I'm saying the Caucuses and other republics recriminalized it long before stalin.

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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?

        • SweetCheeks [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          they can't possibly represent every single minority. they are feminist because women are half the workforce.