• Cuban LGBT activists defy government, hold unprecedented indie pride parade
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I get the feeling the gulags are about to have an overpopulation problem.
Unfortunately all of these people are probably fucked. A dictatorship isn't going to allow any kind of dissent to go unpunished because it makes them look weak and encourages more dissent. All these people, or at least a good chunk of them, are going to be locked up and "made examples of."
That term used only in Communist era Eastern European countries (majorly Soviet Union), for the non-Eastern European countries like Cuba, China, and North Korea is just used the generic name, "Re-education camps" to shutting dissents down.
I don't care what name you want to use for them, gulag is just shorter. Also technically Russia stopped calling them gulags too, I don't know if they actually have a name for them now, I've heard them referred to as 'detention centers' 'prison camps' and 'penal colonies' among others. Same shit, different name.
Does Cuba even have such for actual general populace over the more individual-centric kidnapping that would mainly focus on the activist's leaders rather than followers?
Considering Cuba allows the US government to run the American equivalent of a gulag in their country? I wouldn’t put it past them.
I never understood why authoritarian socialist/communist states pressed so hard against LGBT culture, it's a literal antithesis to the conservative religious values that their doctrine stands against. You'd think it would help to represent the egalitarianism their propaganda suggests.
Marx and Engels were both really toxic homophobes (i;e Marx referring to an author as a Schwanzschwulen  (faggoty prick) and Engels comparing homosexuality to Greek pederasty). The German Revolution tried to legalize private homosexual relations but it was defeated before they could to that; but the Russian and Ukrainian Soviets decriminalized it in 1917 but it fluctuated heavily. Stalin eventually just outright banned it in 1933 with Article 121 of the Soviet Criminal Code, so you'd go to prison for up to 5 years for it because he conflated it with pedophilia and a lot of politicians for some reason said it was only practiced by the "aristocracy and fascists". Current parties naturally fully support it but some places like Benin, Bulgaria, Congo-Brazzaville, East Germany (even had a state run gay disco!) had it legal or decriminalized under their governments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_under_communism
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109686/aaada94c-cb39-49bb-b5ec-4469418a5989/54247763_439738740095962_2565667741872018369_n.jpg
Essentially Soviet propaganda attributed pretty much everything that happened in Germany in the 1930s as the side effects of capitalism which they claimed would inevitably engulf every nation that didn't get conquered by the Russian Empire JOIN THE GLORIOUS UNION (they also claimed that about serial killers until the Butcher of Rostov killed too many people for them to keep it covered up). Most prominently they claimed that both fascism and homosexuality were capitalist plots to prevent the spread of communism. Maxim Gorky outright stated that he believed fascism was created to spread homosexuality, and that eliminating gays would cause fascism to cease to exist.
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