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(SOVIET UNION) - “I Os Shcho” [“And Here it Got Really Ugly.”]. Text in Ukrainian. 30 x 23 inches (76.2 x 58.4 cm). Linen-backed (upper portion soiled). c. 1937 A gleeful Jewish figure is seen punching through Stalin’s 1936 USSR Constitution, specifically Article 3, which states: “All power in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic belongs to the working people of town and country.” The Constitution itself is depicted with numerous Stars-of-David.