Thread: saying America when actually referring to the USA

Originally Posted by it-ogo

I am just afraid to ask how exactly did they come to possess those paintings. Did they secretly spend some extra budget money? Took as gifts from lobbyists? Confiscated from commies during McCarthyism? Trophyed from Saddam's palaces?..

Apparently, the CIA spent a small part of its budget on these paintings in order to promote Abstract Expressionism, because they believed that it would totally freak out and demoralize the Soviets who were accustomed to the blandness of Socialist Realism!

In other words, the idea was that if this is your idea of proper art...



...and you find out that the crazy decadent American artists are making paintings like this...



...then your skull will do this:



Look how free we are in America, sovki!

Originally Posted by Throbert McGee

Apparently, the CIA spent a small part of its budget on these paintings in order to promote Abstract Expressionism, because they believed that it would totally freak out and demoralize the Soviets who were accustomed to the blandness of Socialist Realism!

еще раз подтверждается что США намного дальше шагнули в процесса распила бюджета по сравнению с Россией
Это ж надо - вбухать средства в такую нелепую идею. Кто-то наверняка премию получил за это