Western democracies have a good chance of turning into
something nasty, remember McCarthy? Hitler and Franco
took over western democracies. Stalinism is
not the only murderous totalitarian form.
And both can turn to pose a "human face",
just as from the 70s Hungary,
no artist was shot or sent to the gulag.
So - that important difference of yours is rather relative.
Eva
>... However, artists in western democracies have a
> much wider range of choice than artists under the soviet system. If they
> want to prostitute themselves, they can. If they want to starve in a
> garret, they can. If they want to be misuderstood, they can be. No one
> will shoot them or send them to the gulag. That to me is a very important
> difference.
>
> Ed Weick
>
>
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