Anti Shaman Poster || Shamans of Siberia || Exhibition Linden-Museum,Stuttgart

This poster by G. Chorosevskij the population is called to suspend shamans and kulaks of their community. The result of the fight against because shamanism in 20s to the 30s was the extensive destruction of a holistic system of meaning with the associated religious, philosophical, moral and ethical and medical knowledge of indigenous peoples of Siberia. The fate that had suffered in that time, many shamans, is still not known in its entirety.
Source: Schamanen Sibiriens, Magier, Mittler, Heiler, Buch zur Ausstellung: Schamanen Sibiriens, Stuttgart, Kapitel: Schamanismus in der Sowjetzeit

[...] In the Soviet dream of a better future for humankind there was no room for "black magic",Shamans were persecuted and their cult all but destroyed. Communist power applied to the here and and now, but had no access to the past or future. Shamans, however, are calld to their vocation by their ancestors and their future decisions are beyond the ken of the KGB.[...] 

Source: "Sibirien von Sibirien" "Das schlafende Land", Andreas Horvath

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