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I wonder whats Stalin’s take on how to deal with people with “conservative values”

In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

J. Stalin

  • blakeus12 [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    look man, i agree with you and all but did stalin not criminalize homophobia in the ussr? a better pick for a quote like that would be Lenin who created the most LGBT friendly nation in the world after the revolution

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      From what I remember, the loosening of laws about homosexuality were part of a broad repeal of Tsarist laws in general. It was something of an accident or oversight that homosexuality was legalized. But it should be mentioned a there were Bolsheviks into free love, and I think Kollontai wrote something endorsing gay people in the party?

      And the one implemented under Stalin was more of an anti-pedophilia law, but in a time where gay people were assumed to also be pedophiles. And yeah that’s unfortunate and the world has been unkind to queer people.

      I do remember someone here mentioning that the anti-pedastry law was only ever used one time against an otherwise typical gay person and it was after Stalin was dead. I never looked into it though.