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To ensure an orderly society, everything was monitored. Abstract art was banned because it was subject to multiple interpretations. Media was used solely as a tool to improve government’s image.
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Purges were common throughout Stalin’s rule. In 1932-33 Stalin imposed the Great Famine on Ukraine, Kuban and Kazakhstan. As part of his campaign to force Ukrainian peasants to give up their land and join collective farms, the Soviet secret police confiscated food, enforcing the famine. Cannibalism was widespread.
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The responsibility of the government to form a communist society was valued higher than that of individual citizens’ right to live. Prominent figures in the government disappeared, their faces edited out of images, crossed out of history books.
In 1937, the USSR census reported a decline in population to 162 million people, compared to the 170-80 million expected. Stalin killed the officers responsible for the count. |
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