Exactly. Though that being said, Stalin and Mao had no problem funding gays and anarchists outside Russia if it subjected the world to Communism sooner. That’s why I don’t trust Putin’s talk here. Unless he goes as far as to make sure gays and anarchists are stopped not just in his own country, but everywhere else as well, he’s just talking from two sides of his mouth like Stalin, Che Guevara, and Mao were.
I’ll give Stalin credit that he DID restrict abortion to some extent, though such was purely out of pragmatism since obviously Russia and thus Russian Communism would have gone extinct if he hadn’t.