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The Cultural Revolution
The movement by communist party activists to purge all aspects of the culture of 'bourgeois elements', reinforce socialist values and government policies. Full scale assault of intelligentsia and cultural elites. Replacement of Fellow Travellers with artists fully loyal to socialism. -
Assassination of Kirov
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The Great Purges
It was a brutal political campaign launched by Stalin to remove his opposition.