[lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch

[andie nachgeborenen]

Depends on if you're Jewish, of course. I get these catalogs advertising Sovietica and "treasures of the Romanovs" and a shudder goes right through me -- and not because of the Sovietica, and not because I'm still some sort of a red. My mom (no sort of a red) gets the same reaction to the "treasures of the Romanovs." "May the Lord bless the Tsar, and keep the Tsar . . . far far from us!" jks

Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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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
>ry?selLang=English&tmCond=Nikolai&START_ROW_NUM_DL=29
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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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