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Initially designed & created by Mukhika for the 1937 *Exposition Internationale* in Paris, *"The Worker Man & the Kolkhoz Woman"* arose at the side of the Eiffel Tower like two commensurably-sized sentries about to climb atop the metallic lattice, and perched atop, to proudly flaunt their hammer & sickle unto the whole wide world. <br>
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Unsurprisingly, the sculpture consolidated unto itself much of the Expo's attention that year, inspiring near-universal acclaim & awe, & drawing the eyes of the World. Who could resist the sublime grandeur of that pair of beautiful Soviet giants, stood tall against the backdrop of violet Parisian skies (paraphrasing a smitten Picasso)?! <br>
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The sculpture seemed to proclaim the full maturation and arrival of the first young generation reared in the USSR, and who held neither memories nor ethical residue of the rotten pre-Revolutionary empire. <br>
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Back in the USSR that year, triumphant and tensely, desperately, tragically narrow-zealed Stalinist administrators busy systematically erasing the last, as it seemed to them, vestiges of the Old World, had collectively burst under the dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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...targeting for elimination a single demographic (with others mainly swept up by proxy/inertia): anyone who had been in any way politically active in the late 1910s and early 1920s, mainly lifelong Bolsheviks. <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 were influential in the 1920s. <br>
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Initially designed & created by Mukhika for the 1937 *Exposition Internationale* in Paris, *"The Worker Man & the Kolkhoz Woman"* arose at the side of the Eiffel Tower like two commensurably-sized sentries about to climb atop the metallic lattice, and perched atop, to proudly flaunt their hammer & sickle unto the whole wide world. <br>
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Unsurprisingly, the sculpture consolidated unto itself much of the Expo's attention that year, inspiring near-universal acclaim & awe, & drawing the eyes of the World. Who could resist the sublime grandeur of that pair of beautiful Soviet giants, stood tall against the backdrop of violet Parisian skies (paraphrasing a smitten Picasso)?! <br>
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The sculpture seemed to proclaim the full maturation and arrival of the first young generation reared in the USSR, and who held neither memories nor ethical residue of the rotten pre-Revolutionary empire. <br>
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***Mukhina's *"The Worker Man & the Kolkhoz Woman"* monumental sculpture, via a 1937 postcard:*** <br>
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Back in the USSR that year, triumphant and tensely, desperately, tragically narrow-zealed Stalinist administrators busy systematically erasing the last, as it seemed to them, vestiges of the Old World, had collectively burst under the dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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...targeting for elimination a single demographic (with others mainly swept up by proxy/inertia): anyone who had been in any way politically active in the late 1910s and early 1920s, mainly lifelong Bolsheviks. <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 were influential in the 1920s. <br>
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