"Rembrandt Laughing" was a genuine self-portrait

[Anton]

We will forward the situation to the extreme.
Who better thieves or killers?

[Nik]

Well, let's all not quite. Let me remind you, before the revolution (in fact, before the First World) Russia was the richest country in the world. And working with the peasants, too, gradually began to live better. Country, new country is actively constructed, developed, grew rich. If the Bolsheviks had not taken advantage of the complex moment and not promised to the people with three boxes, leading to a revolution, and ultimately not committed to that coup, our country would be in front of the entire planet and all those horrors - starvation, devastation and others simply would not have (at least not to such an extent that happened, after everything had been looted and destroyed - remember the "Heart of a Dog" and the arguments of Professor Transfiguration). In addition, perhaps there would be no World War II.

And in some other countries, I must say, people lived no better than us. Remember the same revolution in Germany. Develop everything exactly according to our scenario, but the authorities managed to restore order. We have, thanks to the connivance of the authorities and the Russian disorder, a situation largely been allowed to drift, with the known result.

If not, a paradise on earth would now Russia, and not some other country.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Vladimir

The money needed for food, the industrialization

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The Communists 20-30gg is usually cattle, which first looted everything that could, and then for every penny it would sell abroad.
Volodya what plants, industrialization, are you talking about ..?
Destroyed hundreds of thousands of icons, salaries sold by weight in tons, what profit? Ridiculous.
The Communists have caused damage to the culture of Russia, a disproportionately larger than the Nazis .. "industrialization" nothing to do with, stupidity, utter idiocy ...

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Сообщение от Vladimir

last odavali for tanks,

If people gave up their personal savings, it is quite another story.

[Vladimir]

Сообщение от Anton

will forward the situation to the extreme.
Who better than thieves or murderers?

This is a simple question. Thieves better than a murderer.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Vladimir

vampires were the more

Here I soglasen.Etu topic on his blog, I raised several times.
But if we take the gross product, the sale of rare works of art. Not more than 0,5-1%was there any sense? More on the sly stolen.
Volodya this applies to all former Soviet republics where for 1922-1940 g.razvorovali more.

[Vladimir]

Bed've done so many tricks of the trade that the art - is a trifle compared with the rest. With art, at least all in some degree reversible: you can buy, to bring back that actually happens. And then the bread was more important. During the 30 years, children in collective work for work days, it was fierce, obviously not to the art ... Stories bybushki my hear - hair stand on end. And academics (they are the king remembered well), meanwhile skyscrapers divided, the studios obstavlyalya and helped create a new religion.

[Евгений]

Сообщение от Vladimir

And then the bread was more important.

Volodya You do not want to see profits from the sale of Russia's history penny, and hundreds of thousands of masterpieces of art have been lost forever. They form the basis of virtually all U.S. and a number of leading museums in Europe (there are those who will not sell).
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A partial list of museums in the world in which there are treasures of Russia (16 - 19 centuries), looted and sold to the communists:

Museum D, d'Orsay, Paris, France.

Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.

Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany.

The Museum of icons, city of Recklinghausen, Germany. (400 pieces)

Rothschild Foundation, USA.

Museo Thyssen - Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.

Villa Favorita, Lugano, Italy.

Nicholas Roerich Museum, New York, USA.

Museum "Hillvud" Marjorie Post, Washington, USA.

Museum in Novy Orleans, USA.

Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.

National Gallery, Washington, USA

[Nik]

Сообщение от Vladimir

And then the bread was more important. During the 30 years, children in collective work for work days, it was fierce, obviously not to the art of ...

Yes, argue, apparently, useless.

Vladimir, because all these horrors - the handiwork of the Bolsheviks themselves. For this they plundered and destroyed the country. As they say "down to the ground, and then ..." And too many people, these same Bolsheviks killed in the 30 years - I think Hitler was a child in comparison with our own self ... words can not find a suitable ... murderer. What is it? "The bread was more important ..." So because the bread was for them "important" that they were afraid of popular unrest, which could easily wipe them and deprive the government. This is afraid of any power. At the peak of the mass popular unrest, and often there is a change of power, especially in totalitarian regimes. About me, they thought, not the people.

Well, the question is clear. I am afraid only that today's youth do not understand such things. Here is what is sad.

[Евгений]

Nik, I agree with you completely.

[LCR]

Сообщение от qwerty

Dear LCR, please let the output of this book.

WILLIAMS, ROBERT C. Russian Art and American Money, 1900-1940.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. 1980.

Dear qwerty, to your question in another plot (where Cezanne, de Stael and others) will answer on Sunday, now I can not.