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This document is an excerpt from the minutes of a meeting of the party organization at the Lviv Tobacco Factory in Vynnyky, which addressed issues such as theft, shortages, defects, and other — mostly minor but very common — violations. Most of those present at the meeting were members of the Communist Party, yet the discussion focused on the factory’s operations and every employee’s performance. This illustrates the party’s “leading and guiding” role, its omnipresence in both ideological and productive spheres, and its importance for both vertical and horizontal integration. The minutes were recorded in Russian, the dominant language in the public sphere during the late Soviet era. The minutes present a systematic...

The quotes from the interview published here are part of the project "The Voices of Euromaidan in Global Protest and Solidarity Studies". The project focuses on the edited and thematically organized materials from the collection of oral history interviews called "Voices of Resistance and Hope," that were recorded in two stages, the first in December 2013 and the second in February 2014 (more then 100 interviews). They were gathered in the base "Intimate Chronologies of the Euromaidan", which is available on Urban Media Archive website. This collection includes 17 themetical categories. “Leninopad” is one of them. The answers given in this category indicate the attitudes towards Lenin's monuments, to specific forms of urban...