There was one quote in the reading that stuck out to me: “upholding the platform of the Soviet regime and striving to participate in Socialist construction”. It is interesting because it seems as though they wanted people to keep pushing to be better and become artistic but at the same time, it is all about censoring people and making only arts that they approve of. Even in the works we see that there is the ambition for great works but then it includes massive censorship and limitations on what they can even say. I often think of how much stuff was created that would have been disregarded and never published, simply because the officials did not like it, but now it is greatly values and sought after to some degree.
What other themes besides communism do you think showed up in popular soviet expression?
