Stalin "Urban Legends"

[Alina Israeli]

Anecdotally again, people were arrested if torn newspaper with the portrait
of Stalin was found in the bathroom (tissue was inexistent). How would they
know? Communal apartments, of course, and then guests and "friends".

Conversely, when "enemies" were removed from the encyclopedia (Tuxachevskij
and the rest), new pages were sent to encyclopedia subsribers. They were
supposed to cut out a page with a blade and glue in a new one (my girl
friends grandmother was telling me this first hand). Those who did not
perform the operation took a mortal risk as well.

>Hello SEELANGers,
>
>I came across an anecdote (in Erica Fischer's "Aimee und Jaguar")
>describing a small act of resistance against Hitler: in a time
>when everyone was supposed to have a portrait or bust of Hitler (or at the
>very least a Nazi flag) prominently displayed in their home, one man put
>his Hitler portrait under his doormat so he could have the secret pleasure
>of knowing that every visitor to his Berlin home was stepping on the
>Fuehrer.
>
>Has anyone come across any anecdotes like this (in literature, the press,
>orally, etc.) regarding Stalin?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Annie Fisher

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington, DC 20016

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