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Which group or demographic did they target? Well, in '37/'38's bloodiest and most inhumane (and exponentially so) of all the Stalinist purges, the prime target were former and current Leftist-leaning intellectuals/activists. <br>
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It seems that following many prefugurations, the Stalinist machine had finally and collectively burst full wild under the long dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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What drew them to mark many of those once closest to them with those monstrous designator tags of an ultimate superfluousness, rendering them primed for torrents of every kind of bewilderingly libelous improvisations (meaning, accusations) from all sides?! <br>
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In effect, in 1937 & 1938 there took place in the USSR a veiled (and to this day, mis-categorized) anti-Communist genocide orchestrated by Communists, and which resulted in the violent elimination of 90% of surviving Communists & Socialists active before and during the Revolution, and/or influential in the 1920s. <br>
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Alongside them were eliminated most Civil War-era Red Army veteran officers. Why? One theory is horrifyingly simple: to make way for the young. And if by 1940 there were still a few mentors around for these youths to turn to, it just so happened that very few of those mentors had ever read Marx's *Das Kapital*. <br>
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***Soviet youth, via another sculpture by Mukhina:*** <br>
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Which group or demographic did they target? Well, in '37/'38's bloodiest and most inhumane (and exponentially so) of all the Stalinist purges, the prime target were former and current Leftist-leaning intellectuals/activists. <br>
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It seems that following many prefugurations, the Stalinist machine had finally and collectively burst full wild under the long dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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What drew them to mark many of those once closest to them with those monstrous designator tags of an ultimate superfluousness, rendering them primed for torrents of every kind of bewilderingly libelous improvisations (meaning, accusations) from all sides?! <br>
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And so many were marked from the get-go for elimination... And for the large part, annihilated in the purges that year was anyone who had been in any way politically active in the late 1910s and early 1920s, mainly lifelong Bolsheviks. Other groups were swept up into the grinder alongside them, but more often than not by proxy/inertia. <br>
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In effect, in 1937 & 1938 there took place in the USSR a veiled (and to this day, mis-categorized) anti-Communist genocide orchestrated by Communists, and which resulted in the violent elimination of 90% of surviving Communists & Socialists active before and during the Revolution, and/or influential in the 1920s. <br>
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Alongside them were eliminated most Civil War-era Red Army veteran officers. Why? One theory is horrifyingly simple: to make way for the young. And if by 1940 there were still a few mentors around for these youths to turn to, it just so happened that very few of those mentors had ever read Marx's *Das Kapital*. <br>
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***Soviet youth, via another sculpture by Mukhina:*** <br>
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