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From what I remember, the loosening of laws about homosexuality were part of a broad repeal of Tsarist laws in general. It was something of an accident or oversight that homosexuality was legalized. But it should be mentioned a there were Bolsheviks into free love, and I think Kollontai wrote something endorsing gay people in the party?
And the one implemented under Stalin was more of an anti-pedophilia law, but in a time where gay people were assumed to also be pedophiles. And yeah that's unfortunate and the world has been unkind to queer people.
I do remember someone here mentioning that the anti-pedastry law was only ever used one time against an otherwise typical gay person and it was after Stalin was dead. I never looked into it though.
gotcha, thanks for the info