> 26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity, as "normal, natural, healthy."

When Stalin came to power, homosexuality became a topic unfit for public depiction, defense or discussion. Homosexual or bisexual Soviets who wanted a position within the Communist Party were expected to marry a person of the opposite sex, regardless of their actual sexual orientation

The Khrushchev government believed that absent of a criminal law against homosexuality, the sex between men that occurred in the prison environment would spread into the general population

The first Khrushchev-era sex education manual...described homosexuals as child molesters: "...homosexuals are aroused by and satisfy themselves with adolescents and youngsters, even though the latter have a normal interest towards girls

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Thousands of people were imprisoned for homosexuality and government censorship of homosexuality and gay rights did not begin to slowly relax until the early 1970s

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In 1984, a group of Russian gay men met and attempted to organize an official gay rights organization, only to be quickly shut down by the KGB

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On 27 May 1993, homosexual acts between consenting males were legalised

> 40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

The 1944 Edict... sought to preserve the family unit by making divorces even more difficult to obtain

You'll have to provide some evidence that your list is anything to do with McCarthyist Commumism fears

Tying everything you don't like to communism, like Skousen LOVED to do, is a pretty poor argument. EVERYTHING that these quacks and racists didn't like was tied to communism [1].

If you can explain to me how government controlled production has ANY relationship to culture or the acceptance/rejection of homosexuality, I'm all ears. Bare in mind, communist governments have routinely banned homosexuality. [2]

To the likes of Skousen, everything that isn't accepting mormonism as the one true religion is a communist plot.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/heavenlybanner/crtool

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China

Added scare quotes to "communists". I'm not talking about literal communists. 50's boogeyman communists. Maybe I _did_ mean that flippantly.

I don't really see your point then. Why bring this up at all? Just to show that the worst fears of extremists have come true?

This is just warmed-up McCarthyism. Reading a rant from a right-wing source isn't actually evidence of anything. And the Soviet Union has been dead for thirty years.

It is the same warzone though. But the people fighting it from the right look increasingly like the one Japanese guy who refused to acknowledge the surrender until the 1960s.

Different boogeymen, same orthodoxies.

Edit to your edit: They are looking fringe because the other side won ;)

I'd say that you really have to look back farther to the enlightenment for the source of basically all of those bulletpoints. It's not communism that came up with any of those ideas, it just happened to find them useful/worthwhile.

If you cite Skousen as proof of anything, you've made a real mistake.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

They're the seed of QAnon.

I'm not spouting anything as proof of anything. Just demonstrating as a matter of record that culturally this battle has been waged before.

>The communists won the culture war.

You then cite Skousen's talking points as if those were the "communists" actual goals and not his fever dreams.

The JBS lost, "communists" or "progressive orthodoxies" (conflating the two shows your priors) didnt win.