"Bulldozer Exhibition" - 35

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group of artists who were not in the official Soviet artistic unions and organizations, agreed to show their work to all wishing on the edge of Bitsevsky forest park.

The initiators were shown: the collector A. Glaser, and 13 artists (Rabin - the main leader of the non-conformism, V. Vorobyov, and Yu Zharkikh, V. Komar, Melamid, L. Masterkova V. Nemukhin, E. Rukhin, Rabin A . (son of Rabin O.), V. Sitnikov, IV Holin, B. Steinberg, N. Elskaya).

According to different exhibitors on site and were joined by another group of painters who came to support their comrades. Some of them did not come empty-handed: L. Bazhanov, S. Bordachev, E. Zelenin, R. Zanevskaya, K. Nahapetyan, V. Pirogov, A. Tiapushkin, O. Tripoli, M. Fedorov-Roshal, T . Levitskaya, M. Odnoralov, Zhdanov, V. Tupitsyn and some others whose names and numbers set is not possible. Currently, about his participation in this exhibition, said a significant number of hudozhnkov.

The exhibition was divided on the spot, owned forest park Belyaevo. The participants included about 20 artists and a group of observers, which consisted of relatives and friends of artists, journalists and Western news agencies. The paintings were hung on makeshift desks made of wood debris.

However, despite the small scale events, it was taken very seriously by the authorities. After about half an hour after the start of venue was sent to a group including three bulldozers, water cannons, trucks, and about a hundred policemen in plain clothes who were oppressed and artists gathered spectators of the paintings had been confiscated. Formally, it looked like a spontaneous reaction to an angry group of workers for the improvement and development of forest park [2][3]. However, never denied that the work order they received from the KGB.

The attackers smashed the picture, beating and arresting artists, audiences and foreign journalists. Eyewitnesses recall as Oscar Rabin was actually pushed through the entire exhibition, hanging on the knife bucket bulldozer. Artists were taken to the station and declared: "To shoot you should! Only cartridges sorry ... ».