Folks tend to resist oppression, which is why totalitarianism requires the indoctrination of children. Think of the Hitler Youth. Or the Great Japan Youth Party. Think of the Communist Youth League of China. Or the Komsomol, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League.

Part of this indoctrination process includes doing away with classic children’s stories but then you need to replace those stories with new ones that will impart new values. Proper communist and fascist values. So today, let’s have a quick look at some Soviet children’s literature.

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