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1. Andrei was motivated because without joining the party he wouldn't be able to get a job that would pay well and being in the party gave him more opportunity.
2. He would have defiantly been prevented from getting work anywhere and that would untimely ruin his life.
3. On the third cartoon it shows a man saying that the need some one who is young and has new, fresh ideas which basically describes Gorbachev and then they say, oh well one of us will do and all of the men look the exact same meaning they have the same old ideas and ways of running the country.

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1. Andrei's professor told him to join the party not because he shared ideas, but because he wanted to study finance and he would not be able to pursue it otherwise.
2. Andrei would most likely have been killed if he brashly insulted the party during an earlier rule.
3. The freedom of speech and religion were probably most important because they no longer had to fear for their lives when expressing themselves and being authentic.

Cartoon #5:
The man in this cartoon is a mechanic and his apron says perestroika. He has taken apart the car labelled the soviet economy and now does not know how to put it back. This is a metaphor for the problems Gorbachev may have created by taking apart the Soviet economy.

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1. One of his teachers/peers motivated him to leave the army and join the party.
2. I think if Andrei had refused to join the communist party under Stalin or Brezhnev, something would have happened to him.
3. I think the freedom of speech was the most important. It allowed the people to talk, and enjoy themselves and do the things they love.
4. I think due to the leadership change, she discribed the time period as difficult. What they had been taught through Lenin Stalin and Brezhnev was completely different from what Gorbachev was doing.

This cartoon shows a band *trying* to practice, but they have the leader of the KGB's foot above them. "Not too much swing boys... we don't want him to start tapping his feet." His foot is over them, so they do not want him to catch them.

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1.  he wanted to improve his career
2.  I think they would have punished him or put him in jail if he had refused to join the party.
3. I think that the people

- I think the picture with the car is showing how broken the Soviet economy is and how hard it is going to be to rebuild and fix their economy when the man in the cartoon says "Now comes the tricky part" as he looked at all of the car pieces on the ground.

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1. his teachers convinced him after studying immensely hard for the position he wanted to be in. so first and foremost, if he wanted to have anything to do with it, he had to join the party regardless of his true interests.
2. yes, he probably would have been rejected and sent to camp and gotten killed if he showed any signs of opposition towards communism.
3. openness is crucial because

I interpreted the third picture because you see the politburo talking through their thoughts of the ideal characteristics of a leader. near the top left hand corner, there was a huge picture of brezhnev above them. he looked like the exact opposite of what they were looking for

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1. I think Andrei was motivated to join the army because it would get him out of the soviet union. In the army one probably would not get that much food, but you would get some and you would get to experience comradery and maybe happiness that they never experienced in the soviet union.
2. Yes, I think he would get sent to a camp or killed because those leaders did not allow any oposition to communism.
3. I think openness is most important because people could have some of their own opinions or at least be able to express themselves.
4. I think this period was confusing and difficult because it was a change from no power at all and no option at all to some freedom and people did not know how to handle it and why the government was doing it.
5. I vividly remember the Boston Bombings at the marathon.
PICTURE
I chose to interperet the picture of all the men who look the same sitting in two rows with a speech bubble saying we need a young new dynamic leader, but one of us will have to do. I think it represents that everyone in the government was used to doing the same things because communisim made everyone equal it was hard to change the rutine or ones life with out getting in trouble. Also, the sameness represents the changeless in the economy and government throughout the communistic state.

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1.) He was a very productive teenager growing up and wanted to attend a school or special prgra but knew he would be unable if he didn't joing the party. One of his teachers also motivated him to join.
2.) Yes he would have been killed or thrown into jail most likely for refusing the party.
3.) I believe that being able to have the ability to speak their political views and discuss their thoughts was very important to the citizens.

I interpreted the first drawing, which in my opinion represents how the government had kept all of the ugly truths of society on lockdown by not allowing people to speak, read/publish, or express their opinions and complaints about how the Soviet Union was functioning at the time.

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1. One of his teachers pushed him to join the party even though he wasn't interested in joining.
2. Yes, Andrei might've been killed or held in someplace otherwise because if either of those leaders were in charge then they would want him to keep his mouth shut and wouldnt trust him to do it himself. Or they would have forced him o join.
3. The freedom of speech was most important since it allows people to criticize the government so that they can build off what the public suggests and complain about.
4. There were a lot of huge changes going on around that time and for people who grew up in a certain way and had to change suddenly it was difficult.
Cartoons:
In the last picture it shows Brezhnev knocking down dominos in the shape of the communist symbol. It displays how Brezhnev began the fall of communism and how it declined.

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1. A teacher of his motivated him to join the communist party
2. I think something would have happened to him because the other rulers would not have wanted people to stand up against leaders in the government. He would probably have been punished by someone in power for refusing the invitation.
3. I think their freedom of speech was the most important because it meant they were not longer living in fear and they were able to feel more relaxed and it created a better society.
4. I think she called it that because it was a complete shift in society and people were given more information which means they questioned their beliefs and their government which probably confused a lot of people.

Cartoon:
The first cartoon is essentially conveying how Brezhnev would keep the people from being able to hear anything bad, say anything bad, or report anything bad about communism. A guy who works for the press has his eyes covered which shows how Brezhnev's kept the press from being able to write anything bad about communism. The second guy is a citizen and has his ears covered which shows that the citizens could not hear anything bad about communism or the government in society.

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1. Andrei's motivation to join the communist party was his teachers who told him that he should join
2. I believe that if he declined it, he would have ended up in great trouble, mostly likely in jail but maybe even dead.
3. I can't choose between two of them. First, I think that it was really important for writers to be able to publish want they wanted so the Soviet citizens could know what was happening in their country. But I also think their freedom of expression was really important because they they could look how they would like and do artistic things, this made like much more enjoyable.
Last photo interpretation: This picture shows how when Gorbachev give the people a little freedom, they'll take a lot. This is shown through the dominos in the domino effect shaped like the soviet union symbol.

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1.  One of his teachers motivated him to join the communist party
2. I think that Andrei could have been imprisoned or punished
3. I think that the freedom of speech was the most important
4. because the government was saying one thing but the result was really the opposite
5. Muslim women not being able to do everything that the men can

Cartoon Interpretation:

The first cartoon has Brezhnev looking like a monkey and there are words that say that the government does not want you to discuss communism. The monkey is also stopping a little cartoon character from hearing, speaking, or listening to things about communism that are bad. I think that this cartoon also displays that you could be punished for talking about communism.

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1. I think that Andrei was motivated to join the Communist party because no one knew that is was down falling.
2. I think that if he refused he would've been either killed or sent to a labor camp.
3. I think that the new interviews in the newspaper were the most intriguing to the Russians because these interviews were never aloud to be released before.
4. I think since the good people weren't getting the jobs they were set out to get while the alcoholics were easily getting the jobs is what confused the people the most.
5. I think how people were so surprised when others were selling art and dancing on the road.

CARTOON:
1. the 5th cartoon is showing how difficult it's going to be to reconstruct the economy and they are showing that through a mechanic fix a car with all of the parts on the floor.

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1) Andrei was motivated to join the Communist party, because it was such a popular thing to do at that point. Joining the party became a necessity, and when he was denied, it allowed him to realize what the party really was like considering they didn't let him on, but they would let drunks on.
2) Yes, I think that he would've been punished because it would have come across as a negative look on Communism which was not tolerated.

Interpretation: In the first cartoon, Brezhnev is blocking people's sight hearing, and ability to talk. This represents how (for the speak one) people did not have the ability to have their own opinions. (for the hear one) people could not hear outside views through the press or news. (for the see one) people could not express their opinions through western press.

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2. I think if Andrei hadn't joined the party, then he would have been seen as a possible threat to the Communist Party. It would have been a situation along the same lines as criticizing the Communist Party and their values.

Cartoon Interpretations:

In the second cartoon, it depicts a man and woman talking, as the man makes a comment about the choices the Americans had to make at the voting booth or elections. The woman then asks what a voting booth is. This shows how sheltered and ignorant the Soviets were because they were always being controlled by the government.

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1. Andrei was motivated to join the Communist Party because
2. If he had refused an invitation to join, I think that he would have been punished in some way, but the extent of that punishment, I'm not sure about. The Communist Party needs to keep up the image that communism and their party is great and everyone is happy with it, and by refusing the invitation, he would be showing that that image is not really true.

Cartoon:
The 4th cartoon depicts a band called "glasnot" playing for the KGB, which is the security agency for the soviet union. This shows how the people can't take some of the rights that were given to them from glasnot too far or else the KGB might come after them.

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1. Andrei's teacher encouraged him to join the communist party in order to make use of all of his degrees.
2. If Andrei had refused under Stalin or Brezhnev, there I think there would have been major repercussions; you wouldn't decline an invitation from either of those leaders.
3. I think freedom of the press was the most important of the new freedoms, as it allowed people to see past the one side of things they had been taught as a child.
4. People who had grown up knowing one thing were now, in later life, learning something completely contradictory, and they had to quickly form opinions to act politically.
6. The third cartoon showcases the struggle for new leadership after Brezhnev's death, and how the drawing pool was old and likeminded. This led to the selection of someone with the youth and energy of Gorbachev.

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1. Andrei was motivated to join the Communist Party because his Dean encouraged him to join while he was away in the army. More importantly, he recognized that joining the party would increase his success in his studies and career.

2. Yes, I believe that if Andrei refused his invitation to the Communist Party during this time period he would have experienced persucution. He could have ended up in jail  or even dead

3.  I think that the Russian enjoyed freedom of speech. It allowed for much public expression and inviduality among Soviet society.

4. The first cartoon expresses the little freedom and shielding that Perestroika brought to the Soviet society. The cartoon depicts a series of a ape and a man, were the monkey is covering the man's ears, plugging his ears, and squashing him. This a realistic, yet dramatic depiction of life in the Soviet Union

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1. I think that  Anrdei and many others wanted to join the party to look normal. It reminds me a lot of how so many people joined the Nazi party just because everyone else was. Peer pressure, and in this case pressure from the government itself, influenced everyone's choices.
2. If anyone has refused an invitation to join the party, it would be seen as an insult. I think bad things would then follow for the person who chose to decline the 'offer'.
3. I think artistic freedom was one of the most important ones gained, because people could finally express themselves. Self-expression in very important because it makes life feel more meaningful.
Cartoon #2: This cartoon shows how the Soviet Union tried to make fun of the choices other countries had to make because they are difficult decisions. However, a peasant woman then comments on her lack of information about freedom.

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1.  His teacher told him to join the party
2.  I think he would have been either killed or put in jail
3.  Freedom of speech because they could now say whatever they wanted about the communist party
4.  The government was telling the people the wrong thing

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In the third cartoon it shows Brezhnev saying how the soviet union should have a new dynamic leader but one of the people will have to do. The cartoon is funny because he was the only true candidate. This also shows how it was hard to pick a new leader after Brezhnev.