Among the first communist decrees were ‘On the abolition of marriage’ and ‘On civil partnership, children and ownership’, removing the differences between legitimate and illegitimate children, downgrading marriage and encouraging sexual freedom. There were ‘anti-shame’ demonstrations involving a mixture of exhibitionists and people whose main focus was intense hatred of Christian traditionalists. Young men loved it, obviously, and within a short space of time the country had three hundred thousand bezprizorni, homeless children abandoned by parents and forced to live in Russian state
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