The
Red Corner
Traditionally,
the Red Corner - krasnyi ugol - was a place in a house for religious
icons. Soviet leaders, as part of their attempt to eradicate religious
superstition, changed the name to Little Red Corner (krasnyi ugolok)
and established one in every enterprise, school and institution.
From a sacred place for icons, it became a wall space for Soviet
propaganda. The content varied from place to place; it might be
a little museum with portraits of shock-workers (udarniki) or war
veterans or exemplary pupils, but universally it was a place for
the propagation of Soviet ideas and local information. The wall
would have propaganda, texts, portraits, and wall newspapers (stengazeta).
The color red - a sacred color for pre-Soviet Russians as well as
for Russian revolutionaries - was always present.
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