Morozov, Pavlik

Morozov, Pavlik

▪ Russian communist youth
byname of  Pavel Trofimovich Morozov  
born Nov. 14, 1918, Gerasimovka, Russia
died Sept. 3, 1932, Gerasimovka

      Russian communist youth who was glorified as a martyr by the Soviet regime.

      The son of poor peasants, Morozov was the leader of the Young Pioneers' group at his village school and was a fanatical supporter of the Soviet government's collectivization drive in the countryside. In 1930, at age 12, he gained notoriety for denouncing his father, the head of the local soviet, to the Soviet authorities. In court Morozov charged that his father had forged documents and sold favours to kulaks (i.e., rich peasants who were resisting the collectivization drive). Morozov also accused other peasants of hoarding their grain and withholding it from the authorities. As a consequence of his denunciations, Morozov was brutally murdered by several local kulaks.

      Morozov was subsequently glorified as a martyr by the Soviet regime. Monuments to him were erected in several Soviet cities, and his example as a model communist was taught to several generations of Soviet schoolchildren. By the late 20th century, however, his legend had dropped into disfavour with the liberalizing Soviet regime, which viewed him as a tragic symbol of the pressures that Stalinism could exert upon the family.

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