That’s a great example. There have been some times in Russian history when art has been allowed to re-evaluate virtues. Often, the State realizes this and clamp

That’s a great example. There have been some times in Russian history when art has been allowed to re-evaluate virtues. Often, the State realizes this and clamps down. In living memory, you might hear that art is owned by the people and must be understood by the people. For at least 50 years everything outside Socialist realism was therefore obscene. So a jacket with symbols of a one-party state, or a t-shirt with an aspirationally Marxist revolutionary is art in both the state-controlled and free worlds. Your jacket probably outlived the USSR and I bet Che Guevara t-shirts are the only thing keeping his memory going.