>>126762227>Nazis had FurtwanglerA man who refused to go to France during its occupation because he was so ashamed by it.
>Soviets had ShostakovichWho was quietly pushed aside and almost repressed during Stalin's anti-Formalism campaign of 30's. But that's kind of Russian modus operandi: to totally shun great artist when they're alive and use them as props after they die. Take the 19th century Russian literature, for example, where Czarist regime has exiled Pushkin, banished Turgenev, excommunicated Leo Tolstoy and did a mock execution of Dostoevsky, but then they've became pillars of Russian state-supported culture mythology.
>I think Capitalism kills more art than any other structureThat's why 19th century capitalist Great Britain, France, Germany and Austria had so little culture going on.