"After two decades of building socialism in the USSR there is no reason for anybody to be a homosexual."
— Nikolai Krylenko

January 1, 1970

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RevolutionariesPoliticians from RussiaPoliticians from the Soviet UnionJustice ministersMinisters of Russia and the Soviet Union
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Krylenko on the law re-criminalizing homosexuality in 1936. Quoted in David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia, University of Chicago Press, 1996