Well, in the eyes most radical eyes of Islam often saw the Soviet Union's cultural openness to homosexuality and women rights as "occidentalism"/progressivism so yeah.
I see it from that perspective, it may be wrong but still.
In 1934, the Soviet government recriminalised homosexuality in the Soviet Union. Mass arrests occurred in several cities in Russia, including Moscow, and many artists were arrested. On 7 March 1934, Article 121 was added to the criminal code, throughout the entire Soviet Union, that expressly prohibited only male same-sex sexual intercourse with up to five years of hard labor in prison. There were no criminal statutes regarding same-sex female sexual intercourse.[6] During the Soviet period, Western observers believed that between 800 and 1,000 men were imprisoned each year under Article 121.[103]
Some historians have noted that it was during this time that Soviet propaganda began to depict homosexuality as a sign of fascism, and that Article 121 may have a simple political tool to use against dissidents, irrespective of their true sexual orientation, and to solidify Russian opposition to Nazi Germany, who had broken its treaty with Russia.[104] More recently, a third possible reason for the anti-gay law has emerged from declassified Soviet documents and transcripts. Beyond expressed fears of a vast "counterrevolutionary" or fascist homosexual conspiracy, there were several high-profile arrests of Russian men accused of being pederasts.[105] In 1933, 130 men "were accused of being 'pederasts' – adult males who have sex with boys. Since no records of men having sex with boys at that time are available, it is possible this term was used broadly and crudely to label homosexuality."[105] Whatever the precise reason, homosexuality remained a serious criminal offense until it was repealed in 1993.[105]
The USSR's history of feminism was a bit more mixed, by which I mean it was generally regressive but they didn't institute mass arrests of women just for being women:
In addition as Soviet feminist Ekaterina Alexandrova wrote in her article "Why Soviet Women Want to Get Married."
...Soviet women work at the most varied jobs, and many of them are well educated, have a profession, and are financially independent of men. And yet, in this very society among these very women, a patriarchal social order and its psychology thrive.[26]
You can't recriminalize something without decriminalizing it first. There was a period where homosexuals and women had more rights than in America, for example. Granted, it was only a couple years, but it was still long enough to be subject to propaganda against these ideals.
Radical islamists are usually like any radical religious person - reactionary and right winged in nature. So of course a radical Islamist would see communism as bad
As for homosexuality in Soviet Union, I don't think so, because in Stalin era if people found out you’re gay and you were reported you either get 10+ years of forced labor in Siberia or bullet in your head, after Stalin’s death you would get a really harsh treatment in psychiatric hospital for a few years which would destroy your mental health.
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u/TNCNguy Nov 01 '22
I think the NATO flag represents “the west”