The criminalizsation was put to an and in the year 1922. Re-criminalised again in the year 1934. If it was fluke then it wouldn’t take 12 years to criminalise it again.
At this time there were important figures like Maxim Gorki, which were homophobic and agitated against homosexuality. It was self evident for a Marxist, at the time of the revolution and before, that the state doesn’t have to control sexuality. Also it was clear which role sexuality had looking at the liberation of women.
Gay and Lesbian people hadn’t it easy in the 20s, because the environment still was not friendly (years of tsarism and religion had its influence). But there were no justification to criminalise homosexuality, because the law was absolutely influenced by Marxism and therefore the law could not criminalise something that aligned with it.
As I said, it changed later in the 30s. Gorki himself wrote stuff like that homosexuality goes against socialism and and an.
But one thing is not true (something you can read also here quite often), that homosexuality was criminalised again because such views were “normal” at this time and everybody did it. Look how abortion and divorce was widely accessable, but it drastically changed in the same time when homosexuality was criminalised. Abortion was drastically restricted and also getting divorced was not that easy then before (Look at the laws in the year 1944). There was a clear trend for all this sadly.
The criminalizsation was put to an and in the year 1922. Re-criminalised again in the year 1934. If it was fluke then it wouldn’t take 12 years to criminalise it again.
At this time there were important figures like Maxim Gorki, which were homophobic and agitated against homosexuality. It was self evident for a Marxist, at the time of the revolution and before, that the state doesn’t have to control sexuality. Also it was clear which role sexuality had looking at the liberation of women.
Gay and Lesbian people hadn’t it easy in the 20s, because the environment still was not friendly (years of tsarism and religion had its influence). But there were no justification to criminalise homosexuality, because the law was absolutely influenced by Marxism and therefore the law could not criminalise something that aligned with it.
As I said, it changed later in the 30s. Gorki himself wrote stuff like that homosexuality goes against socialism and and an.
But one thing is not true (something you can read also here quite often), that homosexuality was criminalised again because such views were “normal” at this time and everybody did it. Look how abortion and divorce was widely accessable, but it drastically changed in the same time when homosexuality was criminalised. Abortion was drastically restricted and also getting divorced was not that easy then before (Look at the laws in the year 1944). There was a clear trend for all this sadly.