Even at its most homophobic, the USSR never had a death penalty for being gay, and the only person who was executed in the Doctors’ Plot was the guy who fabricated the claims against the Jewish doctors. If they actually cared, they could have taken 30 seconds to confirm this with even liberal sources before they started saying bullshit, but…
and the only person who was executed in the Doctors’ Plot was the guy who fabricated the claims against the Jewish doctors.
This would have been after '53, right? Like, Stalin wasn’t responsible for that shit (we have testimony he was against the conspiracy theory), but let’s not act like he thwarted it either.
Were the deaths that precipitated it really just bad luck? I guess that would bolster the theory that it was promoted by the opposition bloc to successfully keep Stalin from having easy access to medical aid.
People who talk about politics under Stalin really neglect how complicated it is and how, to assert something is true, that has implications for many other situations and motivations like a logic circuit changing values down the line.
The same folks that cry big crocodile tears for all the dead gay jewish Soviets that Stalin crushed to death with his big spoon will plug their ears and scream “Whataboutism!” at you if you talk about the time the British government castrated Alan Turing.
you’ve got the whole squad laughin with that knee-slapper, chum pal
Even at its most homophobic, the USSR never had a death penalty for being gay, and the only person who was executed in the Doctors’ Plot was the guy who fabricated the claims against the Jewish doctors. If they actually cared, they could have taken 30 seconds to confirm this with even liberal sources before they started saying bullshit, but…
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This would have been after '53, right? Like, Stalin wasn’t responsible for that shit (we have testimony he was against the conspiracy theory), but let’s not act like he thwarted it either.
Were the deaths that precipitated it really just bad luck? I guess that would bolster the theory that it was promoted by the opposition bloc to successfully keep Stalin from having easy access to medical aid.
People who talk about politics under Stalin really neglect how complicated it is and how, to assert something is true, that has implications for many other situations and motivations like a logic circuit changing values down the line.
The same folks that cry big crocodile tears for all the dead gay jewish Soviets that Stalin crushed to death with his big spoon will plug their ears and scream “Whataboutism!” at you if you talk about the time the British government castrated Alan Turing.