According to Turkish historian Hasan Bülent Paksoy, the Bolsheviks tried to destroy these symbols of culture by only publishing them in insufficiently large quantities and in a distorted form "in order to weaken the heroic impact".
As noted by Turkish historian Hasan Bülent Paksoy, the Bolsheviks sought to neutralize the effect of these cultural symbols by limiting their circulation and manipulating their portrayal "with the goal of reducing their inspirational value".