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This tumblr post makes me so mad. Especially the last part. So:

Reminder that, at the time, the USSR was actively persecuting avant-garde artists, arresting them under absurd suspicion of espionage, harassing them and driving them to suicide, torturing and murdering them, secretly murdering them and staging car accidents, arresting them for making “anti-Soviet” art, arresting them for "counterrevolutionary agitation", driving them into exile, razing galleries with bulldozers. The workers do not need this trash, they said. Anyone making bourgeois, anti-Soviet, meaningless art is an enemy of the people, they said. 

 

Why would anyone want to publicize the fact that the US treated its artists better than that, we just don’t know. Clearly it’s all brainwashing.