bear with me as I have a cursory understanding of soviet history but can someone explain why stalin edited photographs and is there an apologist argument that makes this not a big deal?
Bear with me as I have a cursory understanding of soviet history but can someone explain why stalin edited photographs...
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Luke Reed
trotsky was a revisionist
Anthony Nguyen
Look up damnatio memoriae.
Julian White
Lack of education in Soviet society prior to Stalinism led to most of the population being relatively uneducated. Tsar Nicholas the Second had a cult of personality and his adviser Rasputin was a religious nut. Most of the population worshipped images. For a modern example, think about how if you enter into a Mexican restaurant and you see paintings of Christ and the Virgin Mary everywhere: it's basically the Russian version of that. The CPSU edited the images so that CPSU members who had had been tried and found guilty of crimes against the Soviet state wouldn't be worshipped by the peasants. They even changed the young Pioneers song to praise Stalin. Overall the personality cult was a response to a shitty situation and Stalin didn't like it himself. Pre-Soviet Tsarist empire also had a lot of censorship, leading to an ignorant population.
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Adrian Hughes
Forgot some statistics on literacy rates. Most of the population was illiterate so songs and images were important.
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Logan Garcia
Let me retract the claim that most were "illiterate" during Stalinist era, I meant to put "uneducated".
Carter Martin
Evan Russell
ok
Austin Allen
There really were people in the USSR who wanted to aid the Nazis.
Zachary Clark
Goddamn russians were stupid.
Isaiah Hughes
Take make himself look thinner
Carter Robinson
ok
William Bailey
You guys really seem to get ass mad every time the USSR isn't portrayed as a literal hell on earth ruled by the devil.
Liam Peterson
I'm not mad at all, fam. But, like always, tankies get flustered when anyone dares imply that people actually died in the USSR.
Jackson Campbell
It's the concentrated Spectacle. What is good appears and what appears is good.
Gavin Green
Yeah, people died in the USSR. Tankies don't deny that. That's because it was an actual society that had to deal with actual problems and not a fairy tale book.
Grayson Morris
free bump
Evan Anderson
Also make him look taller. most photography and all statues depict him as being tall, maybe even imposing. Stalin though was 5'4", and Yezhov was 5'0". If you ever see a picture of Stalin in a group of other people, you'll be shocked.. Lenin was actually an inch taller than Stalin, but nearly all photographs and depictions show Lenin as shorter.
Ryder Morales
How did they not get instantly Gulag'd?
Adam Butler
expediency?
Aaron Kelly
I never imagined Stalin to be a manlet.