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If you want to create something different... you can't. No, really. The Party gives you money. The Party is responsible for promotion of your works. The Party knows where you live. If you create something in different style, you're a class traitor. They will not actually imprison you or charge you in court unless you actively tackle the Soviet system or ideology in your works, but they will never publish your work, and you will possibly get a social stigma.
If you want to create something different... you can't. No, really. The Party gives you money. The Party is responsible for promotion of your works. The Party knows where you live. If you create something in different style, you're a class traitor. They will not actually imprison you or charge you in court unless you actively tackle the Soviet system or ideology in your works, but they will never publish your work, and you will possibly get a social stigma.


More [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_realism here], at the [[Other Wiki]].
More [[wikipedia:Socialist realism|here]], at the [[Other Wiki]].


Here is a Russian joke story about Socialist Realism and Soviet censorship.
Here is a Russian joke story about Socialist Realism and Soviet censorship.
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* ''Plattenbau'' architecture
* ''Plattenbau'' architecture
* The [[The Alleged Car|Wartburg 353]]
* The [[The Alleged Car|Wartburg 353]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Russia_Exhibition_Centre V.D.N.Kh.] (Exhibition of Achievements of the People's Economy), site of the most famous "Worker and Peasant" statue
* [[wikipedia:All-Russia Exhibition Centre|V.D.N.Kh.]] (Exhibition of Achievements of the People's Economy), site of the most famous "Worker and Peasant" statue


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