Harmonica

The Sovi­et Union’s repres­sive state cen­sor­ship went to absurd lengths to con­trol what its cit­i­zens learn, seen, and lis­tened to, resembling the virtually com­i­cal elimination of purged for­mer com­rades from pho­tographs dur­ing Stalin’s reign. When it got here to aes­thet­ics, Stal­in­ism most­ly purged extra avant-garde ten­den­cies from the humanities and lit­er­a­ture in favor of didac­tic…