When you think of the Soviet Union, you don't often think of elections, democracy or voting. Yet they did have elections, and citizens did go out on polling day just like in many democracies at the time. So how did these elections work and who could a citizen vote for? Were they free and fair? What if you didn't like any of the candidates? Well tough, Comrade. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tenminhistory Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4973164 Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/history-matters-store-2 Special Thanks to the following Patrons for their support on Patreon: Alen Chris Fatta Richard Wolfe Kevin Sanders Daniel Lambert anon Stefan Møller sharpie660 Wolf D. Mahlik John Garcia Warren Rudkin Mitchell Wildoer Andrew Niedbala Paul McGee Ariadni Voulgari Sam Bernardo Santos Danny Anstess August Block Vesko Diney Christopher Godfrey Shaun Pullin Perry Gagne Joooooshhhhh Magdalena Reinberg-Leibel Henry Rabung Troy Schmidt Adam Barrett Lachlan hamid kadiwala I’m Not In The Description Liam Gilleece Chris Hall Byzans_Scotorius Mark Ploegstra Jeffrey Schneider FuzzytheFair Kinfe85 Haydn Noble Gideon Rashkes Josh Cornelius Julian Baumann Richard Manklow StukaJi86 Colin Steele Konstantin Bredyuk Gabriel Lunde João Santos Donald Weaver Nick Finan Seth Reeves Pierre Le Mouel Yasin Ayas Blake Dryad Sources: The Personality Cult of Stalin in Soviet Posters, 1929-1953 by Anita Pisch Soviet Elections as a Measure of Dissent: The Missing One Percent by Jerome M. Gibson. Soviet Elections Revisited: Voter Abstention in Noncompetitive Voting by Rasma Karklins