Mastodawn

a random reminder for the westerners still frowning about the undeveloped social mores in eastern europe: the second republic of poland granted all its citizens voting rights at the time of its creation in 1918, and the homosexuality has been decriminalised since 1932.

this is doubly relevant if you're an anglo.

(with the obvious caveat that legislating things does not equal to ending discrimination.)

[edited to add: this is not an unqualified praise for the second republic, frankly, it's not even a praise.]

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sobkas Feb 5

@mawhrin IIRP was authoritarian hellhole, with a bonus of colonising neighbours that weren't strong enough to resist. Voting rights? As long as you weren't part of any ethnic minority. And many more.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦

@sobkas i'm not unaware.

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and mind, the interwar poland was by no means a nice place, rife with antisemitism and xenophobia, and for most of the existence ruled by variously vindictive authoritarians. but hell if i'm going to concede points to people who invented the word *miscegenation* or had homosexuality in the criminal code well into the seventies.

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