Pornography in the Soviet Union
- Pornography in the Soviet Union
Pornography in the Soviet Union was largely suppressed until the final years of the USSR. According to "The Pornography and Erotica Debate: USSR", sex in general was viewed as "a wasteful consumer of energies better devoted to the building of Communism." Possession could get up to 3 years in prison, or a 300 ruble fine. The 1988 Soviet film "Malenkaya Vera" was the first to feature a sex scene. The resolution on Glasnost stated, "Glasnost must not be used... [to] disseminate pornography" but by September 1989, calendars of topless women for the year 1990 were being sold in Moscow. [Edmondson, Linda Harriet (1992). "Women and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union".]
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