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  What was this targe? Well, in '37/'38's bloodiest and most inhumane (and exponentially) so of all the purges, the prime target were former and current Leftist-leaning intellectuals/activists. <br>
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  It seems that following many prefugurations, the Stalinist machine had finally and collectively burst full wild under the long dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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  ...target for elimination this 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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  Alongside them were eliminated most Civil War-era Red Army veteran officers. Why? One theory is horrifyingly simple: to make way for the young. And if by 1940 there were still a few mentors around for these youths to turn to, it just so happened that very few of those mentors had ever lay eyes on Marx's Das Kapital. <br>
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  ***Soviet youth, via another sculpture by Mukhina:*** <br>
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  ![The Sculpture via 1937 postcard:](https://huggingface.co/AlekseyCalvin/Art_of_Stone_Monuments_FLUXLoRA_BySilverAgePoets/resolve/main/Young.png)
 
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  What was this targe? Well, in '37/'38's bloodiest and most inhumane (and exponentially) so of all the purges, the prime target were former and current Leftist-leaning intellectuals/activists. <br>
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  It seems that following many prefugurations, the Stalinist machine had finally and collectively burst full wild under the long dialectic strain of hope and paranoia into a murderous and self-destructive psychosis... <br>
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  ...target for elimination this 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 influential in the 1920s. <br>
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  Alongside them were eliminated most Civil War-era Red Army veteran officers. Why? One theory is horrifyingly simple: to make way for the young. And if by 1940 there were still a few mentors around for these youths to turn to, it just so happened that very few of those mentors had ever lay eyes on Marx's Das Kapital. <br>
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  ***Soviet youth, via another sculpture by Mukhina:*** <br>
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  ![The Sculpture via 1937 postcard:](https://huggingface.co/AlekseyCalvin/Art_of_Stone_Monuments_FLUXLoRA_BySilverAgePoets/resolve/main/Young.png)