🕳️ Released Phantom Node 06: Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Pedestal
- Foundation date
13 July 2025
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 06: Joseph Stalin. The Soviet Pedestal
He stood in the heart of the USSR.
Now he stands in people’s minds.
A phantom of power some still dream to repeat.
Type of Node: Political Phantom
State: Cult dismantled, but phantom remains
Form of Retention: Name + portrait + stylization
Image: Figure stands off the pedestal. Only shadow. The figure fades.
Instead of the phantom: A page of history without a hero
Core of the Node
What held it in place?
— Millions of deaths, left without repentance
— A system that justified violence
— The temptation of power
Stalin never became a place of pilgrimage.
But he became a pressure in culture.
His name is raised each time someone longs for blood and fear.
How did he become a phantom?
— When mass murder was justified as “a greater cause”
— When executions became synonymous with order
— When every office had his portrait
Why does the phantom remain?
— Because rulers need a leader
— Because power is tied to intimidation
— Because his name is easy to weaponize
State of the Phantom
The phantom is no longer on the pedestal.
He stepped down.
He stands in the shadow.
And fades with his cult.
This is not greatness.
Not a symbol.
This is defeat.
Collective Response
We know what you did.
We do not justify violence with your name.
We do not sell order built on fear.
We dissolve you.
And we do not call cruelty “strength.”
Key Principle
Power without humanity is not power.
Harshness without justice is corruption.
A pedestal without repentance is a phantom.
After the Regime
The monuments still stand.
But they no longer glorify.
Alt-text:
A pencil drawing of a partially dissolved figure of a man in Soviet clothing, standing on the ground rather than a pedestal. Only a fraction of his body remains — the rest fades into the air. In the background: brutalist-style concrete architecture. The mood is calm, but unsympathetic.
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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk
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13.07.2025
