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DOCUMENT #11
DOCUMENT #11
French ambassador to the Soviet Union, late 1930s.
I personally attended the second and third Moscow trials, those of 1937 and 1938. . . . Pyatakov [another defendant] arose . . . confessed . . . to a number of crimes. Did these “confessions” carry any share of truth? It is possible that the accused were hostile to Stalin’s regime. . . . But the lessons they recited must have been forced from them . . . it is more likely that the GPU [secret police] touched each at his weak point. It is also probable that the accused gave in to some form of pressure. . . . Some would give in to save their families, others in the hope of saving their own lives.
DOCUMENT #12
DOCUMENT #12
DOCUMENT #13
DOCUMENT #13
A gulag death list. The red pen markings are thought to belong to Stalin, Kim Hjelmgaard.
DOCUMENT #14
DOCUMENT #14
"Long live the great party of Lenin–Stalin — leader and organizer of the victorious building of socialism," L. Stenberg, 1937.
DOCUMENT #15
DOCUMENT #15
"Chronicle of the arrests, exiles and escapes of Comrade Stalin," unidentified artist, 1938.
DOCUMENT #16
DOCUMENT #16
‘We are warmed by Stalin’s affection …’, unidentified artist, 1949
DOCUMENT #17
DOCUMENT #17
"Stalin’s kindness illuminates the future of our children!," Iraklii Toidze, 1947, Iskusstvo (Moscow, Leningrad).
DOCUMENT #18
DOCUMENT #18
"Best friend of children. Glory to great Stalin!," Elena Mel’nikova, 1951, Iskusstvo (Moscow).
DOCUMENT #19
DOCUMENT #19
"Stalin takes care of each of us from the Kremlin," Viktor Govorkov, 1940, Iskusstvo (Moscow, Leningrad).
DOCUMENT #20
DOCUMENT #20
"Thank you beloved Stalin for our happy childhood," Viktor Govorkov, 1936, Izogiz.
DOCUMENT #21
DOCUMENT #21
"Long live the equal-rights woman in the USSR, an active participant in the administration of the nation’s state, economic, and cultural affairs!," Marina Volkova & Natalia Pinus, 1938.
DOCUMENT #22
DOCUMENT #22
‘Our noble people’, Konev, 1935. An individual could provide a better rallying symbol to fire the popular imagination than the collective of anonymous faces, so one man--Stalin--was chosen to symbolize a whole new work ethic.
DOCUMENT #23
DOCUMENT #23
"Shock workers of the fields engage in fighting for the socialist reconstruction of agriculture …," Gustav Klutsis, 1932.
DOCUMENT #24
DOCUMENT #24
"The captain of the Soviet Union leads us from victory to victory!," Boris Efimov, 1933, Izogiz (Moscow, Leningrad).
DOCUMENT #25
DOCUMENT #25
"Long live the great, invincible banner of Marx–Engels–Lenin," Nikolai Dolgorukov, 1934.
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