Quote Originally Posted by joysof
Did I ever ask anything about suppression?
You asked: 'How was creativity disallowed in the USSR?'. As far as I can see, the 'disallowing' of creativity is suppression.
You were replying to my message that mentioned Sakharov. In that message, I was dealing with the naive materialism of another poster.

[quote:1ydtvu1p]However, you're going off the tangent yourself.I responded to the message that linked creativity to economy, and that could not possibly mean creativity in poetry.
You asked: 'How was creativity disallowed in the USSR?'. It seemed, generally speaking, such a stupid question that I thought I would deal with it by reference to a sphere of creativity about which I have some knowledge. Economics isn't my strong point.[/quote:1ydtvu1p]

I have already explained why this argument is irrelevant. We might as well discuss creativity in sexual perversions, if any creativity is fine by you.

[quote:1ydtvu1p]Which plays were suppressed?
'Moliere'[/quote:1ydtvu1p]

Nope. The premi