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Top Russian court bans LGBT movement as 'extremist' (www.reuters.com)
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[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The sad part is that i’m not sure that the outcome would be any different even if the ruling party was a communist one, at least if it chose to tail the masses on this issue.

At the very least there wouldn’t have been the reactionary backslide due to the return of the power of the church (especially the reactionary sections that were previously exiled).

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking more along the lines of if tomorrow the communists seized power and had to govern a country that has already undergone this reactionary backslide. Of course if the SU never fell the circumstances and the social attitudes would be entirely different today, but we can't change the past, only the future.

[–] QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 11 months ago

True, but an alternate history is more realistic than another revolution now. Obviously there could be a revolutionary situation eventually, idk what the future looks like for them.