Jacek Piskozub wrote:
> Using a state symbol [*] of a oppresive country (the red star) in
> clearly Stalinist context. For me it is not much better than using the
> Wehrmacht cross and marching troops as the symbol of Mozilla.
>
> The problem is there are still some some people around (like me) who had
> to live in the shadow of this very symbol. It's not funny for me. Rather
> pathetic.
yes, but that symbol was appropriated by the Communist governments, not the
reverse. Constructivist art can be beautiful in it's simplicity of expression,
and was appropriated by those governments for the very same reason: they speak
loudly yet simply. Even the US Government used a constructivist-style in it's
propaganda for WWI and WWII. It's time people grew up and stopped assuming
styles as evil. A constructivist representation of Lenin (you say Stalin, but it
is Lenin who used it first, Stalin was his successor and actually betrayed
Lenin's ideals) would be in bad taste, a general constructivist style art is
not.
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