>>81642588This a common misunderstanding. It only works, if the artist is openly anti-tyranny/communism.
There were plenty of very rich people, some very famous, for the entire union, esp. in the capital or largest cities of the U.S.S.R. Artists included. None of them were killed of imprisoned as long as they have listened to the party, to the demands of the "regime" and followed those rules. Like, for example, it wasn't good and allowed to SHOW to other people/plebs/peasantry, that you are or could easily be living in a luxury eating caviar with pineapple for breakfast, while wearing diamond JEWelry. Everybody knew that the "elite" had it all and could, but acting in humble ways, as if nobody ever anything remotely rich, was the social bullshit, that kept the unwashed masses quiet and docile.
Pretty much right after the Stalin died everything got way more relaxed. By the 80's your star could drive the only Mercedes in all of the U.S.S.R. And by the 91 all of it ceased to exist, because:
1. The artificial economy/planned economy is retarded bullshit and doomed. Can't sustain itself.
2. People, elites included, were tired of all of this pretend bullshit. People just wanted more economic and personal freedom, read, spending their money on the bullshit they wanted and not the same ole worthless shit that was available in very limited quantities, because of the degenerate planned economy.