Socialist Realism: Difference between revisions

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.

 

 

Here is a Russian joke story about Socialist Realism and Soviet censorship.

* ''Plattenbau'' architecture

* The [[The Alleged Car|Wartburg 353]]

 

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