Grigory Pasko: The Return of Socialist Realism
Our country, led by the friendly Putin-Medvedev tandem, continues to move in seven-mile steps towards the shining heights (a variant on the shameful failures) of the socialist past. They’re writing that in one of the polyclinics (I suspect that this is a clinic for the treatment of the mentally ill) in Saint Petersburg, there has appeared a series of pictures on which president of the RF Dmitry Medvedev is playing chess with prime minister Vladimir Putin in different places and different circumstances – which naturally harkens back to the socialist realism art movement which would often depict the leadership in fantastical and fictional situations.
Not long ago, Newsru.com reported that former Yukos shareholder Leonid Nevzlin, now living in exile, had published on his blog several of these images of the paintings, which he maintains adorn the walls these Moscow clinics. These bizarre paintings were anointed with such colorful titles as: «Homeboys at rest», «Brokeback mountain», «Move with the horse..», «Who in Rus’ lives well»…
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