>>19960>Some of those are really nice, thanks for postingYou're welcome. They all were banned by your vanguardist ruling class after post-revolutionary stabilization btw.
>I think you are not giving the Soviets enough creditNah, I give it all the credit for being a censorshit failed state.
>the range of artistic expression in the Soviet union was if anything much broader than in the west.Lmao, yea buddy. Especially in the 30s, when the new class society was in the process of establishing itself on the new economic basis. There was so much artistic expression that all the avant-garde artists got either imprisoned, killed, exiled or bullied into submission into adhering to new fucking ugly stalinoid neoclassicism that was taking shape at the time.
You know who else liked neoclassicism and hated "degenerate" abstract art? Fascists lol. And Napoleon (you literally can't make this shit up with Trot comparing Stalinoid to Napoleon before the new soviet imperial neoclassical style was even in the project lol).
And don't even let me start on fucking socrealism. I hate that fucking abomination with a passion. No wonder that it blossomed in RES societies with a highly pronounced personality cult (Stalinoid SU, Romania, NK). And in ALL RES societies there was ALWAYS pressure on the artist to adhere to the fucking stillborn codified socrealism style IN EVERY ART FORM, with the only exception maybe being the first years of Khruschev's thaw (up to the moment when he personally closed abstract art gallery in Moscow which signified a new wave of repressions on artistic expression).
Would you just look at this wonderful picture? Doesn't it just make you wanna throw up lol? True proletarian art style, as dead as their fucking revolutionary enthusiasm lol!
TLDR: You don't know shit. Don't talk to me. I know orders of magnitude more about RES societies than you will ever know. Piss off.