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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

  • robinn2 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    did stalin not criminalize homophobia in the ussr?

    sicko-wistful

    I think you meant homosexuality, which the USSR specifically criminalized male homosexuality after Lenin. Awful but also extremely common among other nations, and the most non-socially-progressive law you can think of with regards to his policies.

    • ennemi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      It’s good to contextualize this stuff as much as possible, but I would say that the idea that Stalin was universally opposed to “conservative values” as we understand them today is, to describe it in outdated Twitter slang, “not it chief”