“How does it feel, my boy?” by ~chorsahgryphon
Artist’s Comments:
” ‘How does it feel, my boy, to be this powerful?’
An image I’ve had in my mind for a long time, of Stalin and Ivan, with Ivan being just a tiny bit uneasy at the beginning of the changes his boss was bringing about…
Not necessarily accurateaccurate in terms of clothes/whatever; they’re trying to restrain Ukraine in the doorway over there, representing the resistance of the Kulaks (wealthy landowners) to Stalin’s policy of collectivization. Most of them just got dragged off to gulags or other such unfortunate places despite their efforts. Also I put the Baltic nations in because I needed people to fill up the space, although when I looked it up the Dekulakization started in 1930, in which the Baltics were still independent. Oh well. They still must have felt some pressure, being so close to Russia and all…let’s just say in the pic they’re just being what they look like; bystanders. Very nervous looking bystanders. (They know they’re next, maybe!) Liet is comforting Latvia on the side…”