Obviously intially places like the GDR and Cuba didnr immediately become bastions of lgtbq rights, but overtime they definitely developed a lot in that respect. I can understand the intial roll back of these rights right after a revolution (like on Cuba), and then gradually reexpanding over time. The idea being that homosexuality is viewed as Bourgeois decadence because the Bourgeois wouldn’t be punished (as much) for that behavior, so instead of getting rid of the law they apply it equally across society. Of course this is wrong and eventually the people choose to give more rights to lgbtq people.

China and other Asian countries also kinda had this issue, but it seems to be more of a general conservatism and indifference, depending on where you are. So Vietnam is generally pretty positive, China in the middle and the DPRK closer to Russia and such.

So I’m just curious why the USSR and it’s constituent states were and are so against the idea. Not in a moralist “omg I can’t believe it” way, just that the incongruence confuses me. Sure, after the USSR collapse and the focus against western imperialism, I can definitely see why they’re this way because of imperialist pink washing. But why was this never changed during the cold war, while in East Germany it was?