Lovers of a KGB lieutenant and letters to Stalin: Writer Rustam Alexander on the USSR queer history

Sydney-based Russuan writer and researcher Rustam Alexander told SBS Russian about working on his book 'Red Closet: The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR'.

Dmitri Vrubel painting 'My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love' showing kissing communist leaders Brezhnev and Honecker on the East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Source: NurPhoto / Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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