Editing Sodomy laws (section)

==== During [[Stalin]]'s regime ====
However, when [[Joseph Stalin]] came to power in the 1920s, these laws were reversed until homosexuality was effectively illegal again.

In Russia, sexual activity between males was criminalized by state law on the 4th March 1934, for the entire territory of the then Soviet Union. On the 27th May 1993, homosexual acts between consenting males were decriminalized.