Although I am not interested in women being treated like slabs of meat (as if ‘looking’ a certain way constitutes an achievement in the real world), I support Sephora’s right to live in Finland and to participate ‘equally’ in all Finnish cultural activities.
Tag: USSR
USSR: Pregnant Women Receive Midwifery Care (1970) – Из серии «Рождение человека». 1970 год. Фото: Сергей Васильев
Midwifery care in the USSR.
The USSR and Homosexuality Part III (RSFSR Article 154a)
This legislation appears to have been interpreted as a protection against male on male rape, and not an attack upon homosexuality in general. This stance appears to be vindicated by the fact that the Soviet Government (in 1926), invited the German Magnus Hirschfeld – the famous gay emancipator and founder of the World League of Sexual Reform – to witness first-hand the tolerance toward homosexuality in Revolutionary Russia. As a result, during the 1928 Copenhagen Congress of the Institute for the Science of Sexuality, the League stated that the Soviet Union was a model of tolerance for sexual diversity. When Hitler came to power, however, these progressive institutes were attacked and destroyed.
Midwifery in the Soviet Union (1917-1991)
On December 28th, 1917, just weeks after the October Revolution, the People’s Commissariat of Public Charity was formed as a department tasked with the protection of infants.
The USSR and Homosexuality Part I (Article 121 – 1934)
The Soviet Union was a Socialist State seeking to evolve society beyond its feudal and capitalist limitations, and into an advanced Communist System where class, religion and State would no longer be required for the maintenance of an optimum human society.
Photographic Homage to Comrade Joseph Stalin (Birthday 18.12.2016)
A photographic counter-narrative to the bourgeois nonsense that currently passes as ‘history’.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 