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It was systemic among Russian aristocrats before the revolution. People rightly criticize Lenin and the Bolsheviks for their stance on homosexuality, but they forget what motivated it: the Bolsheviks were keen to stamp out elite pedophilia ("pederasty"), and they accepted the common medical opinion at the time that homosexuality and pedophilia were somehow linked. The most evident practitioners of non-traditional sex in pre-revolutionary Russia were not workers and peasants genuinely in love with each other, but Epstein-like aristocrats whom everybody knew were up to stuff behind closed doors.
Also, I never want to hear a liberal talk about Beria again.
Huh. I thought Lenin was cool about homosexuality. IIRC he was pretty progressive. He even banned corporal punishment.
Yeah, medical consensus has really evolved since. Nowadays the DSM and ICD say that pedophilia and pederasty aren't linked, which I think explains the phenomenon of the elites being so into the latter, they're simply abusing power and getting their dicks wet rather than having the attraction.
Do you have any readings, sources, etc; about this? I cannot seem to find anything about this online, atleast not in English. Seems like something very important that would explain why there was such a conservative atitude on sexuality in the USSR.