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minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoStalin didn’t ban being gay, because again, the USSR wasn’t a dictatorship. If the USSR did, that obviously sucks, but ostensibly democratic US and Britain have done worse. https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/lgbtq-people/criminalization-of-homosexuality-in-american-history https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/07/uk-to-finally-pardon-famed-code-breaker-convicted-homosexual-alan-turing/
Stalin didn’t ban being gay, because again, the USSR wasn’t a dictatorship. If the USSR did, that obviously sucks, but ostensibly democratic US and Britain have done worse.