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Eager young minds. Young American school girls laugh and run, happy to be alive and going to Comintern Core school.

Long Live Young Pioneers

Even though such communist organizations were declared as “voluntary,” declining to participate within them was highly discouraged and created personal obstacles for the outsiders. Leaving the Pioneers or declining to be a member was an overt declaration of opposition and anti-patriotism. In her diary, Nina Lugovskaya expressed her constant anger with the new regime's ideologies and their propagandistic tactics toward children. Her decline to participate in the Young Pioneers and May First celebration manifestations earned her bad reputation among schoolmates and created later obstacles, as she was constantly rejected from the colleges she applied to. Any form of social opposition or unconformity was taken rather seriously especially during the years of Stalin's purges 1936-37. It was exactly during this period that Nina shared with her diary her anti-revolutionary thoughts, her boycott activities at school and her ‘snobbish' ignorance toward any kind of revolutionary manifestations and communist clubs. Removing herself from the socialist ‘utopia' portrayed Nina as a traitor and enforced her consequential imprisonment by the NKVD.

The 1930s were not only a time of growing mass celebrations and performances, but were also a product of progressive women and youth clubs that were to create the face of the first Soviet generation. Children of the 1930s were to be the most educated and militant generation of Russians ever, although Nina Lugovskaya felt the contrary. “The slogan ‘Thanks to Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood' rang without irony for children who were cared for, believed in the society that cared for them, and accepted its structures of authority.”[4] Educational policies changed with the new political ideologies. Stricter rules and limitations were enforced, in order to keep students as a homogeneous mass, easy to manipulate. (See Video II) [5]

During holidays, school authorities sent students out into the streets to join the public rallies. Manifestations for Stalin's birthday, state funereal, or May First involved marching, singing Soviet songs, carrying posters of Stalin or the Soviet flag. These were outdoor celebrations of communist spirit, from which Nina chose to abstain. Such demonstrations and other recreational opportunities were meant to improve children's lives and to forge their socialist consciousness. However, the idea of “voluntary” participation within such enforced youth clubs and mass celebrations began to appear problematic. Their unnatural and mechanical character was felt by the intelligentsia and by people like Nina Lugovskaya. “The popular celebration, torn apart from its intrinsic national spiritual traditions …turned into a meaningless commotion and hubbub,” says Alexander Zakharov.[5]

The forced participation and manifestations earned the apathy of the people, which led to decline in social enthusiasm and consequential institutionalization of the massovodstvo (a pure form of mass manipulation authority). Even though claimed as voluntary, participation within communist clubs and mass celebrations turned to be seen and stimulated ‘from above'.

Lunacharsky wrote: “In order to be able to experience themselves, masses have to express themselves in action, and this is possible only when… they become the spectacle for themselves.”[6] Celebrations were created by the masses for the masses, a new wave of constructivist artists created “a total artwork” that depicted the masses, posters and lithographs were to be carried and viewed by the masses, and “Vsegda gotov!”, ("Always Ready!") was to echo among the masses of the first Soviet generation. It was a time of vast industrialization, upward mobility and massive revolutionary constructions – it was a time when the masses were to strive for the future utopia. Everybody was meant to be equal, and nobody could be different… or so stated the communist ideology.

Sugar Daddy Bear wrote:The young future socialists will still be required to spit on a photograph of Bushitler while trampling on a piece of paper with the name "Jesus" inscribed on it and light their marijuana cigarettes (for "medicinal" purposes, mind you) with a burning scrap of a shredded Amerikan flag.

Anyer Marx wrote:Comrade Bear, I am happy to see you back and hope you were hibernating during the global warming snows, as opposed to being a "guest" of the guvmint. Assuming the former (given your stellar record of few, if any, for now, according to these records, but those records could "change" at any moment, denunciations), to give you an update: we are still working on the "requirement" angle but are happy to report that at least 99% of The Children™ of 47% of The People™ will now spit, trample, smoke and desecrate without any prompting whatsoever! Tuesday™ is!

I.M. Craptek wrote:Comrade Bear,

The Second Amendment defamation commercials are probably unnecessary in light of the new "Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act of 2013", a link to which I've included HERE. If you have nothing to do for a few days, take a shot have a try at reading this. I have, and regret it deeply. On the surface it appears somewhat benign, but as you follow the outside references to other existing law the intent becomes less and less clear.

However, the proposed law - S.649 - has been mercifully restricted to 49 pages. As such, there is an outside chance that a few members of the proletariat will comprehend some portions of it and slow its progress till its full intent become clear. (although I doubt it personally)

Also, you can rest assured no LIVs will read beyond the S.649 heading, and thus, "Common Core" will not be necessary to prepare our future leaders to fully accept whatever the Bill actually says or means.

All is well...