That's an extremely iffy technicality.The message that you replied to did not have such questions. Learn to answer questions and not questions to answers to questions.
Stalin took a personal, and oddly patriarchal interest in the affairs of various prominent artists, including Shostakovich, Pasternak and Bulgakov. In M.B.s case, they spoke on the telephone in April 1930, The Days of the Turbins was, as you said yourself, one of Koba's favourite plays, and Bulgakov was, by all accounts, closely watched throughout the 30s.Oh, and if you believe that Stalin kept an eye on every single person in the USSR and Bulgakov in particular, you ought to reconsider.
No arguments here, although I would say neurotic rather than arrogant.there is voluminous evidence that Bulgakov was very arrogant and cooperated poorly.
Paranoid, too - although that's hardly surprising.
Could have been. Don't have any facts on that. But another play, Ivan Vasilyevich, was certainly banned in 1936 after a Central Committee official visited a rehearsal.I'm saying that they could be left unpublished or unstaged because they were just bad.
I would say that it was vibrant, if terrorised, during the 20s and 30s, and, yes, largely stagnant thereafter. Any oeuvre with Fadeev at its head was bound to be. As for the scene nowadays, I wouldn't know, although I'm told that it's abject. But then I'm not defending 'now', I'm voicing concerns about 'then'.Are you saying that the "literary scene" was not "vibrant" in the USSR times? Funny, funny. Is it vibrant now?
Don't know where to start with this one. Yes, I find child pornography distasteful, but not because it is illegal. To be quite honest, I find your brand of moral relativism quite obnoxious.Why is that deviancy, joysof? It's OK in certain countries. But you apparently believe that child pornography is bad by definition. Yes it is, because your law defines it accordingly. If some other law defines something else as illegal, then it is illegal.
Which country? Don't understand.If you don't like it in this country, leave the country or change the law. Don't piss in the wind.
In the Soviet Union, it was often extremely difficult to leave the country, wasn't it? Remember the refuseniki?
I try not to found my admiration of artists upon their apotheosis by others. But perhaps I do. We're all products of our environment, after all.You don't even understand that most of those in "the droves of great people" are great because the West made them symbols.
Are you sure about your dates? From my humble reading I had gathered that the first USSR constitution was actually ratified in 1922, the year poor Marina left the country. I'm willing to stand corrected.You do not understand that when you mention Lenin and some events before 1924 you don't speak of the USSR, which is the topic of this thread.
Freely and proudly.You freely admit your ignorance in economy
You needn't have involved yourself.and are trying to switch the topic to some chimerical creativity
Well, season's greetings to you too .You know, I'm getting tired of your lexicon