Russia: media, propaganda and religion

Question 1

The dawn of the motherland painting 1946

Answer 1

• Dawn refers to Russia’s recovery post WW2
• In the west are factories, the west of Russia was the big industrial cities
• In the east is agriculture - collectivisation, mechanisation - the sun is rising in the east showing how agriculture is building up
• Stalin is looking away from his previous sucesses and onwards to new goals