Sixtiers ( Russian : Шестидесятники , Ukrainian : Шістдесятники ) were representatives of а new generation of the Soviet Intelligentsia , most of whom were born between 1925 and 1945 , and entered the culture and politics of the USSR during the late 1950s and 1960s — after the Khrushchev Thaw . Their worldviews were formed by years of Stalin 's repressions and purges , which affected many of the Sixtiers ' immediate families ; and World War II , where many of them had volunteered to fight
Stalin 's repressions and purges
Great Purge
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