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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya)
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people happiness, but hunger, oppression and death. Actually, Socialist
Realism is not realism, but an expression of romantic fantasy. According
to The Encyclopedia Britannica, "Socialist Realism looks back to
Romanticism in that it encourages a certain heightening and idealizing
of heroes and events to mold the consciousness of the masses."
Socialist Realism, defined in 1932 during the bloodiest days of
Stalin's regime, remained the Soviet Union's official state art policy until
the 1980s. Throughout this entire period, Communism's cheerless, cold
and stagnant atmosphere dominated Soviet art. In order to gain interna-
tional recognition, the Soviet regime encouraged artists and stressed the
importance of the production of new works of art. But because of
Socialist Realism's dogmatic approach, these works remained pressed in
their narrow, cheerless and ugly molds. From 1949 onwards, Socialist
Realism passed to China where a Communist regime had taken power.

Under Communism, art lost all es-
thetic meaning and turned into a
mechanical means of propaganda.
These drawings purport to depict
the model person—a crude,
strong, dull worker or peasant
who thinks of nothing beyond
obeying the system.