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".
According to Turkish historian Hasan Bülent Paksoy, the Bolsheviks aimed to diminish the impact of these cultural symbols by restricting their dissemination and altering their representation "in an effort to reduce their motivational influence".