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>Early post-Revolution culture suspected pets were a manifestation of bourgeois culture as well as an intrusion into the ideal cleanliness of things. There were references to "pampered little lap dogs" as capitalist excesses, and the Russian Society for the Protection of Animals (the ROPZh, founded in 1865), was disbanded.
>There are also useless, harmful dogs. These include parasitical, non-working, lap dogs and homeless dogs and strays. The Soviet Union, which is building socialist society, needs only useful dogs, especially working breeds.
>-- Zavodchikov, 1933, Ovcharka na sluzhbe v kolkhoze: Instruktornye ukazaniia
I love bolshevism now.
