Like, this place, Ulyanovsk, birthplace of Lenin, only Ruissian UNESCO city of literature…it’s got to be fucking sick, right?
Russia has a reputation of being full of reactionaries these days but are there still places where socialist culture remains?
Pardon me for asking such a dumb question, Russia is a massive country, so the answer is probably yes. It’s just that those of us behind the burger curtain don’t really get to learn much about massive fucking nations such as Russia, China, or India. In school we are taught that every culture east of Leipzig or South Africa is a homogenous blob. ‘Once you’ve seen Moscow, you’ve already seen Cambodia’, was the MO in high school
Let me guess, communist boomers (don’t ask their views on anything from vaccination to LGBT rights), fashy middle aged people, very fashy youths that like libertarian economics.
Communists in Czechia are fine on LGBT stuff in my experience these days, the older ones have caught up. Young men are very libertarian and the middle aged people vote socdem and handwring about the evil commies that want Russia to roll in the tanks