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Do you think Russia would have become less terrible with LGBT and woman's rights if the Soviet Union was still a thing? (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Because capitalist Russia is pretty shit. The only thing it's good for is opposing the US hegemony, but even then it's still pretty cringe with it's capitalist oligarchy.

Compare modern day Russia with shit like the Soviets sending the first women to space. Seems like they were pretty progressive for the time compared to now?

How the mighty have fallen. You hate to see it.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 59 points 9 months ago

I think it would have better chances. the revisionists reversed a lot of the early CCCP's gains in women's rights and tolerance for queer people. but given what's happened in Cuba and what happened in the GDR, I think a communist society would have had better odds for learning to normal about sexuality and gender. And I'm certain we wouldn't have seen things like the catholic reactionaries in Poland of all places banning abortion.