@sickburnbro It was an entertaining read, added to my collection. Also it made me chuckle at the britbong, who thinks, that the Soviet ideologists could name a situation “we’re too lazy to allow anything happening” a method and to give it a name after some art schizos from Europe and USA. This assumption implies that
 - the KGB (SVR or whatever) officers cared about foreign(!) modern(!!) art
 - and that they understood(!) it
 - and that they weren’t arrogant self-absorbed officers of an Empire like their counterparts across the Atlantic
 - actually, the britbong doesn’t exactly refer to the state agency officers, he just says “the Soviets”. This implies, that all people in the SU would know about hyperrealism and could easily associate some artsy stuff from abroad (iron curtain, you bastard, where did you run off to?) with their surroundings.

Also the “britbong” seems to be unaware, that the Soviets – who sure did find the state of things, that they were living in, surreal – had their own idea about weird inconsistencies, and that in the common folk those idea were reflected in the Strugatsky books (one film too), Vysotsky songs, in the passionate love for “Alice in the Wonderland” and its homages, stories known yet from the time of the Russian Empire etc. So if “hyperrealism” would knock on the door, he would find a loud party going on.

On the other hand, the “britbong” expects *his reader* to know about hyperrealism, and indeed, for people in Europe (that wasn’t communist) and in America that word rings a bell. The propaganda always works on something *that you already know*, and this gives out who it s aimed at.

I came and can sleep well now. Good night.
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