[lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges

[Chris Doss]

>
>Kitsch isn't necessarily self-consciously appreciated as such. I have a 
>friend who collects Hummel figurines. I would never make fun of them to her 
>face. She thinks they are cute. Soviet culture wasn't always kitschy, but 
>post war Soviet culture was almost all kitschy, except for classical music 
>and dance, and except for the few yewars of the Thaw. jks
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I beg to differ. Socialist Realism tended to be crap, with the exception of 
some landscapes and portraits. But there were some damn good, 
non-underground pop singers: e.g. Mark Bernes, Buryat Okudzhava, Vladimir 
Vysotsky. Mark Bernes sang war songs that are just haunting.

The USSR also had some damn good war movies.

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