Many were willing to suffer a "few years of hardship for the promised land of a better society."1 Posters, signs, books and radio programmes extolled the virtues of hard work and rapid industrialization so that workers were bombarded with Stalin's thoughts and ideas and beliefs from every direction, almost forcing them to see things the way he did and no other. ... Whatever the project may be, building dams or statues, the task was to be completed in set amount of time, at any cost, even human life. ... To ensure that inevitable absenteeism didn't occur, labour books reflected how ha...

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Fictitious works are all around us, we can read books that are about monsters and fae folk, watch movies set thousands of years in the future or listen to people tell tall tales concerning their everyday lives. ...

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