I couldn't care less who I kiss or who others kiss in public..if it's others then its none of my business and if its me its all my business..simple lol

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Hey, I'll have you know the USSR and RSFSR weren't as repressive as the bourgeois media would have you think.
For example, lets take the RSFSR, in 1917, Lenin legalised homosexuality, making it the first nation in the world to do so. When Stalin came to power, he illegalised it (I believe in 1928), but after Stalin's death, I believe it was legalised once again, becoming, for the second time, the first nation in the world to legalise homosexuality.

Yeah, people should stop stigmatising communism as being oppresive. Get this in your heads:
Lenin= dude
Stalin= Pratt

Kissing in public's fine, just don't go overboard, no one wants to see you eating someone's face. Obviously have some sense about where you do it. If people around you don't like it then stuff 'em, they'd better get used to it, just as long as they don't beat you up... obviously.<br /><br />Post edited by: 19Red91, at: 2008/01/28 14:11

Come on Palachinov, let's go. Perhaps it was legalised by Lenin, possibly as part of leaning away from the religious influences (there's nothing socialistically 'equal' about the church hierarchy ), but the USSR did not end with him. Homosexuality has only been legalised again in Russia when the USSR dissipated (I love that concept, where'd it go? :O ) around 1991. Even today, reports from Amnesty groups report some of the worst treatments of sexual minorities in a developing country where the law legalises homosexuality. LGBT groups and rallies are heavily oppressed even today.

Even in the Soviet days, there was a lot of discrepencies, eg. Orthodox clergymen being persecuted (doesn't worry me ), and people of non-Soviet-Russia countries (Georgia etc.) being persecuted. I couldn't find anything on post-Stalin USSR, but seeing as it was decriminalised in, 1993 I believe, I would assume it remained about the same.

Even excluding the USSR's position on homosexuality, just look at all the other injustices and restrictions of freedom that were taken away in that 'Socialist' state.

Sure, I agree, socialism/communism COULD be a good thing, but by Jesus I find it strange when I see someone sticking up for a state that controlled even the movements of people within different sections of Russia itself.

On a silly note; a popular Russian joke.

'What's the shortest joke ever?

Communism'

<br /><br />Post edited by: BravoLima, at: 2008/01/30 05:02

If you don't wanna see it close your eyes. You don't own the world and people can do whatever they want with each-other. You're probably jealous.

People need to kiss more in public.

Hmmmm. I really don't care if a two people are making out or whatever. And people should hold the same standards for gays, but they DO NOT.

Ha, when I have a boyfriend I'm going to want to show up any straight couple in public, lmao!

Oh, they're kissing? Let's show them up!

Also, do it RIGHT beside them too, just so that a person will know how silly it is to talk down to the gay couple when theres a straight couple doing the exact same thing.

That would be hilarious, ha ha.