Word: petrushka
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kasperle's new model should be his Russian cousin Petrushka. The Bolsheviks first banished Petrushka from the Russian puppet stage, as "an outdated anarchist figure." After the building of the Soviet state, Obraslov said, Puppet Petrushka was revived "and given significant tasks." German puppeteers, however, must be careful not to turn the converted Kasperle into a Communist Party functionary. Warned Obraslov: "It would do harm not only to party functionaries but to the personality of Kasperle himself...