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Originally Posted by Madbad
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in 1917, the Russian Revolution saw the overthrow of the Tsarist government and the subsequent foundation of the Russian SFSR, the world's first socialist state, followed by the founding of the Soviet Union after the end of the civil war in 1922. The Bolsheviks rewrote the constitution and "produced two Criminal Codes - in 1922 and 1926 - and an article prohibiting gay sex was left off both."[3] The new Communist Party government eradicated the old laws regarding sexual relations,
effectively legalising homosexual and transgender activity within Russia