Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
It’s one of these things where had Fanny Kaplan had not shot him and he’d lived roughly as long as Stalin (which would be to 1945!), pro gay rights members of his inner circle like Kollontai and Semashko (first USSR minister of health) probably could have influenced greater change.