QUESTION 1
As a small boy, Yevgeny Yevtushenko regarded Stalin as a benevolent hero. A hero to which not only Yevtushenko looked to but as well as the other children and citizens of the Soviet Society. An excerpt from the passage to validate this statement is when Yevtushenko stated “As I waved my small red flag, riding high in my father’s arms above that sea of heads, ii had the feeling that Stalin was looking right at me. I was filled with envy of those children my age lucky enough to be chosen to hand bouquets of flowers to Stalin and whom he gently patted on the head, smiling his famous smile into his famous mustache.”
QUESTION 2
There are several instances in which this excerpt illustrates Stalin’s brutality. One of which is, the arrest…show more content… However, to preserve this god-like image, Stalin’s Cult of Personality used education and youth movements to indoctrinate a new generation of followers in order to maintain Stalin’s role in society. The schools primarily educated students on Stalin’s importance to the Soviet Society. The program to which the children from the age of ten to fifteen years old were sent to in the Soviet Union where they learned, exercised, explored, and praised their society was called Young Pioneer Organization of the Soviet Union. Which was a youth organization similar to boy scouts, however, these camps indoctrinated the children with communist dogmas. The children were also exposed to new scientific and engineering developments, in order to increase their value to the Soviet society. Then, as the students got older, they were encouraged to join the Communist Union of Youth known as Komsomol. In schools, the existence of Stalin's opponents was either moderate or completely removed. Equally students and teachers were strictly supervised in order to ensure total acquiescence in the teaching and learning of these communist dogmas. Teachers who taught otherwise would be severely punished. As for the arts, only optimistic images of Stalin and his programs could be portrayed by the artists and writers. In addition to education, students were inundated with propaganda in schools, and the image of Stalin was always portrayed positively. In the process of indoctrinating the youth of the Soviet Society. Stalin’s cult of personality used this opportunity to rewrite history and show the Soviet Society that he was the only leader liable for the accomplishments of the Soviet
