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Guests at a same-sex wedding in the early Soviet Union, 1921 (lemmy.world)
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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 85 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41737330

Turns out it was a sting operation, unfortunately.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 20 points 2 years ago

What a crazy - and perhaps weirdly foreshadowing - story!

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, the Soviet Union wasn’t great for gay acceptance.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

The Sovs were actually great at first. Moved Russia from a very backwards country on the matter to as open as France. Just didn't last - like so many things in the Soviet Union, it was not sustainably built on popular sentiment, and it could not resist a change in opinions from the ruling class (or rather, a change of rulers in the ruling class - hi Stalin).

[–] sudo@lemmy.today 41 points 2 years ago

I'm not convinced 7-8 of them aren't just Fred Armisen in various outfits.