[lbo-talk] Stalin

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 28 04:14:37 PDT 2008


He was a friend of Ilya Ehrenburg, wan't he? Or am I confusing Picasso with Hemingway?

Christopher E. Doss Moscow, Russian Federation

--- On Tue, 10/28/08, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:


> From: James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Stalin
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 6:18 AM
> The NYT quotes a Cooper Union spokesperson saying
> "Picasso's drawing of Stalin was viewed as
> unflattering and led to his expulsion from the party."
> but I do not think that is the case. He continued to support
> the party - sadly - for the rest of his life, and in 1962
> was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize. Great portrait, though.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/oct/21/books.guardianreview2
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