Gustav Klutsits: "Fulfilled plan, Great work".

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Latvian born artist Gustav Klutsits made this avantgarde- or propaganda poster in 1930, for 13th. anniversary of the revolution. There is a hand, what is filled with smaller hands. And the message of this poster is, that the group gives power. The message of that propagandist poster is very strong, and they are given very good ideas for many people, even if they don't like communists. The idea of the poster is that every whole is consists of individual units.

 And if the whole would want to be strong, every each individual must work for it. The idea is to demonstrate the state as an organism, what consists of the individual cells. This seems a very good idea, but the problem is, that this way to think makes possible to make the most horrific crimes, what mankind ever think. The idea of this way to think is that if the individual becomes useless for the system or composition must that individual removed immediately. And that would justify and legalize the political arresting. But there is some other thing, what we must understand.

This thing, that every single individual must work in the same way, and act in the same way with others, also makes the henchmen think that they are released from the moralistic and ethic responsibility when they are following the orders of their leaders. In this way of thinking, the structure is more important than the individual, and when an individual turns to useless that part can be removed. This would work in a short period, but when enough parts have been removed, would the whole become useless, because the parts must be replaced with other parts and making new parts costs time, and this means that the replacing some parts with other would be possible in the fast period in one case.

If there is stored spare parts in some storage,  the replacement would be very easy. The lower level of parts like screws are almost always found from the storage, but replacement of higher level of parts like gearwheels are not stored so much. And this gave an idea in the head of Joseph Stalin, that he was the most difficult part of the system to replace and all the parts of the system or machine are working for this particular part, what is like the god or master particle for other particles of the machine. The idea is that every machine must be the top piece, what has the justification to give orders for every other particle in the machine.

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Painting "Zhertva" from the hand of the artist Galina Solotomina

"Zhertva" Galina Solotonina, 1973
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The Soviet painting "Zhertva" ("Sacrifice") by Galina Solotonina from the year 1973 is one very interesting picture because even if it the artist's self-portrait, there is painted the character, what can be woman or man, and that character seems to play chess in the candlelight, and character is portrayed in the point of view of the opponent player. This painting is a typical Soviet art, and that means it's technically very impressive, and the thing, what this painting would want to say, is something, what we cannot expect. That painting has the very strong message, and it's that ever underestimate your opponents. The person who might sit next to you can be actually something, what you cannot ever think about.

Even if you would see the old lady, who have ever played chess before, there could be the trap, because the gaming situation can be under the surveillance, and that person can follow the orders, what is given for that person by using radio-transmitters, and the game can be followed by cameras. Then that real player who would tell, how to move chess pieces. Or there could be all the team of those chess players for giving support for that player. Also is possible that this woman is secretly the Chessmaster. Maybe she has played before acting male player.

Or she has been trained by the Soviet chess organization secretly and then put to some big game for humiliating other players. In those cases, the plan would be that the propaganda officials would want to show, that Western players cannot win even the beginner. And that's why this lady has been brought to that chess game. If that planning would work, the other side would seem like idiota, because the lady, who have ever played chess before can win those other players. The message of this picture is that people must play their game until it ends, and nothing has been won until the other side king have been fallen.

In this painting have been captured the purpose of the Soviet people. They should serve the government. And in that country, the thing, what people must remember, was that everybody can be secret police official. Everything in the world may have purposes, what people don't even think, that they could have. In the Soviet Union.

Everything had political purposes, that meant, that there could be strange events in the most common things and one of the most remarkable things in that kind of political system is, that if some person would cause disappointment could send that person straight to prison. Chess was one thing what was important in the Soviet propaganda.

The system used also in the choosing the persons, who have the good strategical angle of view in the military command system. And once one man, named Ilya Ivanov created the idea of eugenics. In that program, the chess system would be used to making pairs with the top level chess players, who could also be very intelligent. This man had the dubious publicity by cutting dogs heads off and keeping the head alive by using cardiac lung machine, what helped to increase the lifetime of those removed heads. And this man could create the idea, that the chess system would be used for choosing extreme intelligent for the parents of the elite Soviet youngsters. But this is only the thinking about this kind of things, what might have a big role in somebody's life.

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