I was wondering when you guys would start talking about the millions of deaths in South America during the Cold War caused by the USA helping dictatorships all around our half of the continent, but now I'm afraid this moment will never come and you will just overlook it...

I read you, and I wonder if you are a troll or truly as ignorant as you look, and also if that makes any kind of difference.

What people really don't get about arts in general is the political façade of it, and its façade tends to get blurred as the time passes...

Mmmm, yeah, they did. Read the article again. They supported movements like Abstract Expressionism deliberately because they were as different from Soviet Realism as different could be. And let's not talk further about CIA's loooong history of paying for deliberate anticommunist propaganda in the arts, like paying…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mod…

So unless you obligatorily mention CIA's assassinations, regime changes, indulging in drug trafficking and all when you talk about Rothko or Pollock, I think we can agree that compartimentalization is not only possible but desirable.

When we're talking about art? Surely.

150 million corpses? Wow! A couple years back was only 100! Must be some sort of inflation thing that comes with planned economies...

Obligatory tiresome comment about the horrors of communism in 3, 2, 1...