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 * Podcast Script **
 * Loud Speaker ** : Attention everybody! Today, each of the student council candidates will be giving their introductory speeches. Please listen carefully and make a wise decision.
 * Narrator ** : At the PAC
 * Candidate 1 ** : Follow me fellow mates! If you listen to me and vote for me as your student council president, I will make sure that you receive no homework, get an extended recess for an hour, go home at 12 p.m. and a chance to not take any exams! This is a chance of a lifetime! Don’t waste this extraordinarily sparkling opportunity and listen to me.
 * Narrator: ** After candidate 1 got elected she thought to herself..
 * Candidate 1: ** (thinks to him/her self) Ha-ha ~ I am now voted as the official president of our school! I can do whatever I want to do. Who cares about those promises that I pretended to make to those stupid students. I am their leader now and that means they are obliged to listen to whatever I say.
 * Narrator ** : a minority club member asks Candidate 1 to dedicate a classroom for their club. And she answered…
 * Candidate 1 ** : Nonsense! Classrooms are for studying, not for clubs. The local bathroom and hallways are much better of a place to do club work. Now, buy me a cup of hot coffee so that I can relax. You students would want me to be well rested so that I can use a lot of brain work to control the deeds of our school don’t you?
 * Narrator: ** Candidate 1 walks down the hallways of the art department of the school, carefully examining the artworks posted on the sides. The theme of the art exhibition was a portrait of him. Joodi drew him as a rather ugly person. His nose was big and red; his eyes were tiny and grim. Sharon drew him as a very handsome man, almost exaggerating. In the picture, he had perfect chin line, large, dazzling eyes, and perfect, pearl-white teeth.
 * Candidate 1: ** Who drew this despicable portrait of me! How dare they mock my perfect configuration! Who is it? Confess at once!
 * Artist 1: ** Um… I drew it. I like to draw very realistically. I guess… You don’t like my artwork?
 * Candidate 1: ** Realistic? Are you kidding me? How in the world is that an accurate drawing of me? Why, the second painting is much more realistic. I will make you have double the homework and no lunchtime at all! On the other hand, who is the spectacular painter of this magnificently realistic portrait of me?
 * Artist 2 ** : I made that painting. I guess you like it?
 * Candidate 1 ** : Like it? Why it’s glamorous! It is so realistic and dazzling that it even hurts my eyes just to look at it. Why, I would almost need sunglasses. What grade are you in? I will personally allow you to have double, triple recess and no homework for the rest of your life!
 * Artist 2: ** Thank you so much! I am currently a freshman.
 * Narrator: ** although this story may seem very fictional, it was actually similar to life under Stalin in Russia. Minorities were discriminated, any artwork that did not support Stalin’s political party was banned, literacy rate was extremely low, housing/hospital conditions were terrible, there was a rapid decline in food production, citizens’ lives were miserable, and Stalin was against religion so they were trying to get rid of religion. Not only were the miserable and had no freedom of religion, they had no freedom what so ever in their lives. Their lives were set under a certain schedule and sets of rules. The rule under Stalin brought a life of misery to most.