[lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Jun 10 10:31:41 PDT 2003


Chris:

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.

WS:

My RiP grandma who was born before the 1917 revolution shook in horror on the very thought of the Russian nobility. Autre temps autre moeurs.

Wojtek



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