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Сообщение от qwerty

By the way, read it, but have not seen the original, that in the sentence, along with charges of counterrevolutionary activity was recorded and for "formalism in art".

In the directory "Alexander Drevin in museum collections" are excerpts from the interrogation Drevin.
For example:

V. - What is your expressed hostility to the Soviet system?
Q - My hostility to Soviet power was expressed in the fact that I
supported the formalist position in the art and counteracted
socialist realism.
And when it was instructed: follow the path of socialist realism,
I considered myself in the position of the offended the Soviet authorities, which does not
work freely and oppresses creativity of the artist.
And only since 1932, I gradually, with great difficulty in correcting
a formalist tendencies.
Q - Tell me what specific work you as an artist with written
counterrevolutionary distortions?
O. - I wrote a series of paintings that are counter-revolutionary
distortion, is: "Jumpers", "Roe", "Unemployed", "Girl" and
"The collective farm landscape.
VA - The essence of counter-revolutionary distortion of your paintings?
A. - That is, for example, painting "Girl on the farm" rather than to portray a fun, prosperous, joyful collective farm life, I drew a heavy, sad, sad reality of the collective farms, displaying it in the movie "Kolkhoznaya girl."
VA - The investigation has evidence that you went to the collective and
carried out the work of nationalist order.
A. - I do not deny it. I talked to the collective farmers about the life of Latvians in
Soviet Union. Remembered how the people live in Latvia. About Latvia I
said, as his homeland.
Q - So, you spent a nationalist agitation?
A. - Yes. I spent the nationalist agitation in the collective farms.