"The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best."
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Quoted in Aly Monroe, "Black Bear"
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Andrei Zhdanov
Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov (26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1896 – 31 August 1948) was a Soviet politician. He was one of Joseph Stalin's closest associates, replacing Sergei Kirov as Leningrad party chief and playing a major role in the Great Purge. His reputation suffered during World War II after he supported the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany and the Winter War against Finland. However, he would later be influential in shaping Soviet cultural and foreign policy at the beginning o
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