To paraphrase one answer, “Soviet Poland decriminalised same sex acts and equalised age of consent but nothing really changed; gays were still hated.”
Like the government didn’t do enough because the culture and local religion didn’t respect the spirit of the law. Can you imagine the outcry if they took it the next step forward and started trying to re-educate?
It just gets better when they try to reason around what changed in the political landscape over the past 50 years that allows homophobia to run rampant again.
Yep, that’s basically it. In 80’s all manner of petty bourgeois mentality rapidly resurfaced and exploded after 89.