Background information: The caption on this poster reads, "Down with Religious Holidays!” A Soviet Union poster during Stalin's Great Purge. Two men are side-by-side. the man on the left has his arm around the man on the right. There are Russian buildings around them. The poster states "Down with Religious Holidays!" The poster and its caption reveal what aspect of Stalin's Great Purge? the encouraging of government protest the promotion of the collective farms the extension of equal rights to peasants the desire to abolish freedom of religion