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The very size of the image and the field’s seemingly endless rows strengthen the visualization of the entire country as one giant factory/field. The foreground, middleground, and background also translate temporarlly in this picture: the fields in the foreground show the earliest stage in the agricultural process. Your eye is then drawn to the middleground, just as the grain is transported into the temporary storage. Finally, in the background, the last step in the process, milling and processing, are just in view.
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The factories in the background remind the reader that throughout the Soviet Union, work is being carried out in a mass collective effort. The stack of smoke suggests that the factory is currently (or always) in use, actively working.
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The trees and forest line the industrial landscape and are coexisting with the factories. Industrialization is not at odds with nature, but rather they can be harmonious. Further, the factories are not detracting from the beautiful natural landscape, but are perhaps accentuating it.
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Three storage tents used for the temporary storage of grain, which is eventually transported to mills or silos.
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Note the very linear, orderly array of the machines and the fields themselves, suggesting total efficiency. Though there are a finite number of tractors, they fade into the background in such a way that it is easy to imagine that the rows carry on forever. The attention is focused entirely on the machines, with their operators being identical and barely visible, overshadowed by the technology they are operating.
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On the fields, tractors and combines (harvesters) work. The combine at once squashes, threshes, picks grain, and pours it into bags. The tractor pulls machines behind it. It plows, sows, mows, carries, turns out stumps, and saws down trees. Tractors do the work of thirty horses. Before the revolution, we did not have tractors. Now, we are building the largest tractor plants in the world.
