In 1933-34 the gas ma by gay men Germany and the Soviet Unn were abptly reversed.
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A DOUBLE DEFEAT: CATASTROPHE FOR GAY EMANCIPATN GERMANY AND THE USSR
Historil rmatn about the reprsn of gay men the Soviet Unn the wake of the ernment's re-crimalisatn of homosexualy 1933, after s crimalisatn 1922. Trigger warng for sexual vlence. * gay soviet union *
Of urse, as wh any leftwg progrsive, I fully support LGBTQ Rights, and am probably one of a handful of Communists who has taken the trouble to march London’s Gay Pri Para. Inially, my rearch began wh Article 121 of the 1934 RSFSR Crimal Co, and s apparent associatn between male homosexualy and the od crime of paedophilia (a logil assumptn ma om an analysis of the wordg – albe English translatn).
I then read, (after the first draft of this say was published), a very tertg bgraphy of Len piled by Tamas Krsz, wh which he asserts that Len liberately ‘crimalised’ homosexualy, and that Stal later ‘crimalised’ . I mt say that after readg the Collected Works of both men, I have never enuntered any wrten texts (by eher of the lears) that specifilly addrsed or nsired the subject of ‘homosexualy’. I was able to e to this ncln, when I recently read the excellent article entled ‘Homosexualy the USSR’ (lked below) wrten by Alfonso Casal (and published on the Stal Society of North Ameri – SSNA – April, 2015).
Homosexualy is a plex affair, not only wh Soviet history, but also throughout the world. Len eed the workg class (cludg gay people, but not exclively so) om Czarist opprsn, and Stal furthered this eedom through the legal reforms that were iated durg his learship of the USSR.