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"Roses for Stalin" by Boris Vladimirski (1878-1950). Painted in 1949.
This painting by Vladimirski was painted during the 1940s, during the height of Josef Stalin's personality cult. Stalin had fostered a cult around himself that made him appear a benevolent leader, and a kind man. One especially forced aspect of the latter was Stalin's purpoted love of children. Stalin frequently appeared on stamps (an example from 1950), in art, on TV and on other mediums surrounded by Slavic children with perfect features, a hint perhaps towards Stalin's views on non-Slavic peoples in the Soviet Union. As in "Roses for Stalin", children with Stalin were almost always in some form of uniform (usually Young Pioneers or school uniform).
Contrast with "Stalin as an Organiser of the October Revolution", which portrays him as a brilliant revolutionary organiser.
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