ИХ ПЫТАЛИСЬ СТЕРЕТЬ: 13 произведений, напугавших власть

Sometimes the authorities fear not weapons, but paintings, books, frescoes, music, or films. Attempts have been made to ban, destroy, wall up, burn, or erase these works from memory—but the ban itself has made them even more dangerous. This issue features 13 works that have survived censorship, fear, and attempts at disappearance. — Nazariy Nazarov's painting "Interrogation," which was seized as a threat and possibly hidden under a new coat of paint; — Diego Rivera's frescoes, which some tried to destroy and others protected as historical heritage; — "Man at the Crossroads" at Rockefeller Center, destroyed overnight because of a single portrait; — the "Degenerate Art" exhibition, created to humiliate, but which attracted millions of visitors; — Shostakovich's opera, removed from the repertoire after a single article in the Soviet press; — Orwell's "Animal Farm"—seventy pages that governments feared; — a fresco in Concepción that showed through the whitewash after every attempt to conceal it; — Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts, microfilm, and the history of a text that banning couldn't stop. This information is provided for entertainment and educational purposes only. All data is based on open sources.