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College Bans Stalin Portrait After Learning He Was Not a Nice Man ...
So Cooper Union, famous for granting all-included scholarships to every student artist and architect, invited one Lene Berg to exhibit her Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Moustache. Berg agreed on the condition that a huge ...

Council boss in new 'Stalin' claim - Lancashire Evening Post
Council boss in new 'Stalin' claim - A Preston council boss has been likened to Stalin for a second time in a row over Town Hall snoopers.

Sue Katz: Consenting Adult: Film Review: The Gift to Stalin
Film festivals are one invaluable eye into world cinema, especially in the States, where home-grown films totally dominate the screen and Americans are squeamish about subtitles, feeling that if filmmakers really wanted us to see their ...

robotnik: Fakelore for Stalin
Fakelore for Stalin. Our man Jess Nevins with some cool snippets from Frank Miller's Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era. Cross-posted from Old is the New New. Comments welcome. ...

www.kansascity.com | 11/20/2008 | Welcome to Kansas GOP's version ...
But in years past, both parties were able to handle such matters without Stalinist-sounding loyalty committees.</p><p>It was more the way things were done in “The Godfather.”</p><p>Say an elected official of one party tended ...

Kyiv disappointed by Medvedev's position on Stalin-era famine ...
In a letter to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko released by the Kremlin on Friday, the Russian president accused Kyiv of using the Stalin-era famine, known as the Holodomor, to drive a wedge between Ukraine and Russia, ...

Environmental Protection Agency IRIS | Salon
"It feels like Stalin-era Russia, like the administration set themselves up to decide what's allowable science and what isn't," says a high-ranking staff scientist at the EPA, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ...

ACLU Demand Explanation of Why Stalin Banner Was Removed From ...
The banner was part of an art exhibit, “Stalin by Picasso, or Portrait of Woman with Mustache.” Lene Berg, the artist who created the banner, said it was intended to provoke discussion about the relationship between art and politics. ...

Stalin and Hitler were both evil? Go figure! | spiked
Popular documentaries do sometimes give lip-service to Stalin's murderous regime and to the RAF's bombing of Dresden, but I have yet to see one that reminds us that Poland took advantage of the Munich Agreement by seizing the ...

Gothamist: Stalin's Reign Over East Village Lasts Five Days
Cooper Union has taken down the giant Stalin banner that went up this week following pressure from the Dept. of Buildings, which had received complaints. The banner was part of Lene Berg's installation, “Stalin by Picasso, ...

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