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Vladimir Linderman is the former publisher of a Soviet Era pornographic and satire magazine that pushed for LBGT rights. He's now in Latvia trying to curb them.

Six reasons to read BuzzFeed’s story about the man who says he led a sexual revolution in the USSR

December 2, 2014Global Politics

Vladimir Linderman once published a Playboy-like magazine that pushed for LGBT rights and put porn on Soviet newstands. Now he’s trying to ban “gay propaganda” in the former Soviet republic of Latvia. So why did he switch sides?

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