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***Mukhina's *"The Worker Man & the Kolkhoz Woman"* monument, via 1937 postcard:*** <br>
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Meanwhile, back in the USSR that year,
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Though on the level of individuals and specific cases, there was a vast diversity of varied motivations underlying how and why this or that local party administrator or police investigator or political trial judge or jury or NKVD agent or newspaper editor or casual informant (etc...) contributed and facilitated the purges, across all these disparate acts of peer-dooming ran certain oddly coherent subtexts.
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Every purge (and not just in Soviet history) has such subtexts, and they can also be very different from context to context. <br>
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In any case, though Politburo or the General Secretary Stalin did not themselves look into or had much of a say regarding most of the names on the execution lists, what they initiated and informed was excatly this subtext, the hidden logic of the proceedings, complete with a very specific, if counterintuitive, prime target. <br>
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***Mukhina's *"The Worker Man & the Kolkhoz Woman"* monument, via 1937 postcard:*** <br>
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Meanwhile, back in the USSR that year, all the tragically tense, desperately narrow-zealed, and self-vulgarizingly triumphant top Stalinist apparatchiks & opportunists had gotten busy systematically erasing the last, as it seemed to them, vestiges of the Old World: their own friends & comrades (or/and desk/podium competitors), as well as (not so infrequently) themselves, under all sorts of direct & indirect pretexts. <br>
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Though on the level of individuals and specific cases, there was a vast diversity of varied motivations underlying how and why this or that local party administrator or police investigator or political trial judge or jury or NKVD agent or newspaper editor or casual informant (etc...) contributed and facilitated the purges, across all these disparate acts of peer-dooming ran certain oddly coherent subtexts.
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Every purge (and not just in Soviet history) has such subtexts, and they can also be very different from context to context. <br>
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In any case, though Politburo or the General Secretary Stalin did not themselves look into or had much of a say regarding most of the names on the execution lists, what they initiated and informed was excatly this subtext, the hidden logic of the proceedings, complete with a very specific, if counterintuitive, prime target. <br>
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