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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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes 100% the stasi pushing the GDR to support LGBT people would have spread to russia. They'd realize the GDR wasn't collapsing from LGBT rights, similar to Fidel's shift in views

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also, the orthodox church would not have had a resurgence and put it's stranglehold on society if the USSR was there to keep it in check.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

One of the things that pisses me off the most is when western Christians get big mad about the Soviets dealing with the church. Just completely ignorant of the centuries of oppression that worked hand-in-glove with the tsardom. Were they harsh? Absolutely. Was it justified? Yes. The state atheism of the Soviet union was a reaction to the state theism of the tsars.