Word: sveshnikov
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...surrounded by besotted generals. The rest of the exhibit was thoroughly predictable: noble Lenins, fatherly Stalins, travel-poster vistas of sunny harvest fields, hefty milkmaids, stern-jawed Stakhanovite workers, a tired, heat-racked oldster peering into the furnace glow whose portrait was entitled Esteemed Old Steel Puddler F. I. Sveshnikov. (Not to be confused with Esteemed Steel Puddler of the Hammer and Sickle Works, M. G. Gusarov and His Brigade, which was also on display.) Only occasionally, beneath the pictures' painful precision and the dutiful glorification of the Soviet paradise, was there a glimpse of real feeling. Warmest...
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