[lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch

[Chris Doss]

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>How is that different from the portraiture of Russian nobility, cf:
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>http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/quickSearchDL.mac/DLgalle
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>Wojtek

The difference is that Stalin is an officially desgnated demon figure and 
the Russian nobility are not. Ergo, in the reflexively Stalinophobic world, 
a portrait of him is automatically BAD, whereas portraits of Russian 
nobility may be fine art. Stalin = Bad.

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