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====== In Russia: Full Co-optation ======
* The Russian government launches a "Cultural Defense Campaign", urging artists to “preserve the homeland’s aesthetic sovereignty.”
* Yakob’s early folk arrangements and Israel’s pro-revolutionary poetry are used in propaganda broadcasts and military recruitment videos.
* A new state ballet, Franka: Flame of the Motherland, premieres at the Mariinsky. It shows Franka as a Bolshevik heroine who dances through enemy lines with a red banner. The music is “inspired by Yakob”—though no original scores are used.

Key distortion: The family’s Jewishness, dissidence, and repression are erased entirely. They are reborn as perfect Soviets, devoid of complexity.