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http://calvertjournal.com/comment/show/3055/crimea-opera-socialist-realism-alexandrov The London-based Calvert Journal was launched a couple years ago as a VTB Bank-sponsored, avowedly "soft power" tool for winning over hipsters and quasi-leftist art-world types to the (depoliticized) notion that Russia under late-period Putinism 2.0 was awash with "creativity." It and the related Calvert Foundation were publicly supported by, among others, ex-Putinist finance minister Alexei Kudrin. The idea seemed dicey at the time, especially since Putinism 3.0 was already kicking off. Now, apparently, the full horror of what is going in Russia has finally dawned on the Shoreditch hipsters, as evidenced by this review of the "opera-demo" "Crimea." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
