Keep in mind you’re on a site where a solid number of users might downplay or relativise Srebrenica.

Khan made lots of kids tho. This one did it just for the love of the game.

You are in some deep seated denial if you don’t think homosexuals express affection through kissing.

I expected more than defaulting to disingenuity. Straight men kissing is not the same as gay men kissing. Implying that Soviet politicians expressed their homosexual desires by kissing is an insulting level of trivialising homosexuality.

Yeah, I’m sorry if the size and depth of the document scared you off.

And - more disingenuity, along with childish pretentiousness. The text doesn’t say anything specific in support of your claims. The “depth” required to prove LGBT culture existed in USSR is miniscule, the general methodological considerations that the PDF discusses are irrelevant here.

I’m arguing the homosexual urge is strong and universal. Russia is no exception. And that, when the political moment allows for it, the expressions of queer love flourish.

I don’t remember anyone claiming otherwise. What was being discussed was how the state deals with that urge and, implied, how we evaluate states with regards to how they dealt with it.

Liberals want to deny that this golden age of free love and open queer expression occurred, because it flies in the face of their orthodoxy. But it happened repeatedly over the history of the USSR. Soviet peoples openly expressed their queer love and accepted the queer love of their neighbors. Soviet governments bent in the face of it, even as the reactionaries fought against it.

This is pure fantasy. You are free to provide actual documentation from that age and prove me wrong - not meta-methodological pontificating of academics but actual traces of that time period from USSR - but as I’ve studied Russian and had some interest in their culture, as well as spent some time in Russian online queer spaces, all I’ve seen is historical silence or erasure, even during the supposed “golden age”. I would be sincerely glad to be proven otherwise, I’d be glad to see that LGBT history hasn’t been as uniformly bleak as it seems to me now.

You don’t need perfect liberal conditions to enjoy a queer society.

Maybe. The point is simply that USSR was very far from a queer(-positive) society either way, with a possible window of greater freedom for a short while that doesn’t seem to have left any serious traces in practice.

Hell, quite a bit of modern western history suggests liberalism is as much a threat to queer expression as any socialist government.

And - standard defaulting to “liberal societies are equally bad tho!”. Right after desperately trying to prove socialism created a queer “golden age”, as if you don’t believe your own claims about it yourself.

Russia and the surrounding states are filled with these people and will continue to be filled with these people, whether you choose to acknowledge them or not.

This has nothing to do with the topic. We’re talking about USSR’s sexual politics, not current LGBT activism in Russia.

Kissing as a sign of friendship/goodwill is not a sign of homosexuality or of acceptance of homosexuality. It is deeply tasteless to use it as an example of being “super gay”.

How do you explain the continued prevalence of gay culture in a country that has so militantly sought to oppress it?

Your claim about the “prelevance” of gay culture in USSR is based on a link to a lengthy and wordy PDF of an introduction and one chapter from an academic volume. It is a vague theoretical/methodological text about studying not just USSR but Central and East Europe during and after socialism. I don’t intend to scrutinise the pages and pages of the Foucaultian language to wring out some potential proof for your claim, what is needed is actual documentation. In fact I’m wondering if you yourself have read and understood the PDF.

If by “gay culture” you mean cultural output with LGBT themes, that effectively didn’t exist in USSR (or at least in Russia, that I’m slightly more familiar with). We can go look for specific examples to check that. If by “gay culture” you mean gay people managing to survive away from the public eye and having some small communities, that’s an unacceptably low bar. By that logic you could make excuses for just about every repressive regime that didn’t completely eradicate its “enemies”.

If you’re arguing against the idea that USSR was the most henious country against LGBT in history, yeah, that’s likely not true. But nobody was claiming that. OP text is (I believe) a reaction to the current touting of the progressive sexual victories in the earliest years of the Union while making little mention of their reversal and the overall bleak situation for most of the country’s history.

You ok there fella?

The three countries’ leaders are “appalled by the indiscriminate and disproportionate missile attacks launched by Iran against countries in the region, including those who were not involved in initial US and Israeli military operations”, said the joint statement

Lmao, go fuck yourselves, the US has I suppose discriminately murdered 150 children who were totally involved in Iranian military operations. After all Trump has done trying to destabilise EU this spineless scum is still holding his back geopolitically.

See the article I linked: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

.ph is just a mirror of the same service, it probably still DDOS’es…

Yes, the visible part of the article talks about the disease. Later on also:

He harbored deep resentment toward his parents, who knew there was a high risk their children would inherit osteogenesis imperfecta, which his mother also had. In 2014, he published an op-ed on the Daily Stormer, the main English-language neo-Nazi website, where he expressed support for eugenics and voluntary sterilization of people with disabilities.

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Kind of yes.

That makes sense, I suppose the bootleg song Heavy Metal Kids was also from that proto-Neu period? Because as great as it is it’s such a different aesthetic…

Btw what are your thoughts on early Kraftwerk/Organisation in general? Do you enjoy those albums? I found them wildly varying in quality, ranging from incredible to unlistenable…

Kraftwerk has at one point or another not had each of its core members. The only original member now is Hütter, but he left the band briefly in the early 70s (when they were still doing psychedelic rock) so nobody has been in the band continuously. And even though they typically have 4 members, a total of 21 musicians has rotated through the group.

Idk if that quite counts, but it’s close at least.

They did sing “wir sind die Roboter”, and robots are replaceable, so I guess it’s an appropriate band history. But, the output has still declined…

Well, for accessing paywalled articles .org is no replacement for .ph/.today, sadly. But it’s advisable to use it as little as possible, it seems using visitors for DDoS’ing the blog is still going on.

OTOH you may have missed the communication even if you were on Facebook. These days your feed is just 1/3 the groups you’re in and pages you’ve liked, 1/3 is the “recommended for you” random garbage, and 1/3 is ads. I’ve missed many notifications for events that interested me, they’d pop up a few days after the event actually took place.