Yugoslavia as it united multiple southern slav countries economically and culturally and was the testing grounds for market socialism.
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GDR, first communist country to NOT think of LGBT as booj - one major critique I have with AES.
Thankfully it is changing, comrade, and the idea of LGBT being a "bourgeois phenomenon" or whatever is still relegated to relatively minor (but relatively successful) communist parties like the KPRF in Russia, CPGB-ML in the UK and KKE in Greece.
rant about LGBT rights and imperialist bullshit
The idea gained traction in the West in no small part via cultural associations between gay men, pedophilia and sexual libertinism - an ideal promulgated mainly by ethically depraved French aristocrats and other fascistic/"individualist" thinkers.
Much of the "Eastern" world did not have a comparable [to the West] cultural relationship with homo/bisexuality, particularly dprKorea, the PRC, Laos and Vietnam (most of the existing AES states). They have unique histories regarding gender non-conformity and sexual minorities that look quite a bit different than the West's. Most of the [LGBT]phobia in the region is imported rather than endemic.
Of course, now the West and their "LGBT rights" NGOs are attempting to have their cake and eat it, too, by using the rights of sexual minorities as a cudgel against the global south and periphery. This leads to shit like Putin railing against the woke globalist agenda imposing transgender ideology on the youth and other such garbage and the KPRF supporting his stance.
This reaction to the rights of sexual minorities becoming entangled with the reaction against [cultural] imperialism is nothing but sick game-playing by the Western world wherein they're attempting to hasten the beat of the wardrums by inviting otherwise well-meaning liberals and 'leftists' to an ideological practice called homonationalism.
Homonationalism preaches that a state nominally protecting the rights of sexual minorities is evidence of its democratic virtue, and those states that do not explicitly protect the rights of sexual minorities require "civilizing", "democratizing", or "being reduced to rubble" -- the choice is usually dependent on how brown and Muslim the people of the nation are. Usually.
This leaves AES nations between a rock and a hard place. What should the CPC do whenever they witness Western "LGBT rights" NGOs popping up all over the global south that promote not change within the confines of pre-existing sovereign systems, but the imposition of liberal, bourgeois democracy, usually by force.
For an example, Belarus has shut down NGO 'protests' like this wherein "LGBT rights activists" would be calling for Lukashenko's violent overthrow. Similar has happened elsewhere. This cements a narrative that only serves to further entrench homonationalism in the minds of western liberals, while also signaling to the global south that "LGBT ideology" is inherently an imperialist imposition. It's a cycle of cultural disease.
I agree, regardless. The socialist world's current relationship with folk like us could be far better. It's getting there, though. It will be a litmus test for those states claiming to practice scientific socialism. [LGBT]phobia is unscientific garbage and it will be relegated to the dustbin of history if those states practice what they preach.
Definitely East Germany. Imagine that but with the whole territory of the Weimar Republic had the KPD come to power instead of Nazi scum. There'd be no World War 2 and Marxism-Leninism would have likely spread much, much further than it did in our timeline. Germany, the USSR and later China being allies (ideally no Sino-Soviet split) and the Western scum nations would actually have been buried like Krushchev promised at the UN. Too bad he was not a good leader so maybe in this timeline someone else would have been in power.
Yes, it's tragic that the GDR remained dedicated to Marxism-Leninism until it's last days while the USSR itself faltered under Gorbechev and left the GDR out to dry.
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The USSR saved all of humanity twice and they were despised for it
libs can criticize the USSR as much as they want but the truth is that if it werent for the soviet union, they would be in concentration camps cleaning the shower-heads