A pro-government newspaper has criticized a hugely popular exhibition
of her work at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest for
"promoting communism".
In a July 14 article entitled "This is the way communism is promoted
using state money", the Kahlo exhibition was listed in the right-wing
newspaper Magyar Idok along with some other galleries, artists and
exhibitions.
"You won't believe it but Trotsky has emerged in Budapest again, this
time from Frida Kahlo's bed," the newspaper wrote, referring to her
affair with Leon Trotsky, a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of
power in Russia, during his later exile in Mexico. Trotsky was
assassinated in 1940.
In June, Magyar Idok also published an article by a guest commentator
who accused the musical Billy Elliot in the Hungarian State Opera of
spreading homosexual propaganda among its young audience. Billy
Elliot has been on the program for two years, with over 100,000
viewers so far.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-orban-culture/communist-frida-kahlo-swept-up-in-debate-on-cultural-change-in-hungary-idUSKBN1KT174
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