Here is some more information on this event that ended the cultural thaw in the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Nonconformist_Art#1962_.E2.80.93_mid

Here is some more information on this event that ended the cultural thaw in the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Nonconformist_Art#1962_.E2.80.93_mid-1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Nonconformist_Art#1962_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Neizvestny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Neizvestny Khrushchev lashed out on the artist Ernst Neizvestny, interstingly he seems to have regretted that move once ousted, as Neizvestny was later approached by Khrushchev's family to design the tomb/monument for the former general secretary. go figure. Maybe this modern art thing was designed to take some influence on the direction of cultural discourse during the thaw (relative liberalization) of the soviet union after the death of Stalin.