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> That's just sovietophobic fiction.

From what I've read, the dismantling of families was really implemented in the 1920s and perhaps 1930s. That's when a kid [1] who ratted on his own father (likely sent him to Gulags) was glorified as a huge Hero of Socialism. After that period though, Communism was gradually less about implementing its distopian ideology and more about naked power of people on top, so the destruction of families was abandoned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlik_Morozov



Civil wars split families, yes.




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