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is filled with joy with parades and marches. inspiring people with insouciance of. blood was everything really good and loud for you to speak out. though she shared her thoughts only with her diary it all became evidence in the trial for counter-revolutionary activity. the evidence which condemned to a label. the diary of a soviet school on a. wealthy british. market

. can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines two kinds of reports. five thirty pm here in the russian capital you always got see the headlines now the israeli army is trying to leaks. pitches making their way onto the internet a couple of appears to come from within the ranks of young tech savvy soldiers posting secret song social networks. to russian ice breakers are racing to rescue some five hundred people off the country's far east coast several ships have been

locked in ice for days in the. dollars down. u.s. is pouring more and more cash into the afghan war but experts say there's no telling where the money really ends up. in just a moment we'll talk to a controversial artist. who has become a legend in his own lifetime to stay with us.

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the return of the work to russia began with the first exhibition there since he. continued to work in russia. political repressions and. petersburg to the. national. cultures of. today.

mr xi thanks for coming to our program. that's walk down memory lane and. we all know that you were expelled from the soviet union the nine hundred seventy one. citizenship. what was your fishel reason for expelling your from the country. since i was not one of the chosen people. quite a complicated one. i was arrested and then taken to the kind of state security for a so-called chat. explained to me that i had three options. first option if it was to go into a man to asylum where i spent half a year. now it was the last of of clinic us which was an experimental clinic actually one of the most horrible wants as it was under the jurisdiction of the

state security services. they tested a new psychotropic medication on us. did help. my mom hadn't gotten out on bail as a disabled i think i would have spent three years there she was told that she should be expecting her son back no sooner than three years later and he says he would actually i wouldn't have the honor of talking to you today b.c. of the usually people left that place in a state of deadheads to go straight into the hospital for people with chronic diseases. who would it if you when you took those medications know if you're well it's not that we actually took them it was different all the time and i was in an almost twilight state when they said various experiments for example they would who'd had films on my head and shout out the names of western artists which with gross mistakes. instead of picasso for example they would say because. my sense of humor help me i mean conscious. so they would shout the names together

with things like modeling the land followed by a bride it flashes of like i was seated in front of a huge color screen with some stripes moving on it in different ways. there could be complete darkness and then suddenly the screen would burst with right if such were some of the experiment. don't you think there's something like that yes minutes while when i got to france my friends advised me not to watch that movie because they knew my story though when i did watch it i found many similarities. so basically if they wanted to see creepy over your personality and your intellect . you see they try to catch us i mean the young people and to help us stick to the truth often they first tried to crush us in certain organizations and read us. up with. them when they saw that you didn't give

in a psychiatrist would give a cue if. the kid should be considered as if you were to version two western principles or not. your denial of socialist thrillers or something else when you weren't a dissident that's such right but i have always protested against being called a dissident you know no it wasn't like that i don't like it when someone says that she is a dissident dissenting i was actually involved in very simple things like studying russian icons but it was considered as interest and mr says though it was also into group there was a book called match his group written by an author from the german democratic republic at those it was a very distressing fascination i don't know if you know anything about his books but he writes a lot about truth of patient using a very expressive catechism etc the main crying was my interest in a rented van gogh in sicily and it was considered

a crime yeah even if you were interested in impressionist because they praise the buddha why do moreover i really want to. make it a pain to the naked and gay people so when you were expelled from the soviet union nine hundred seventy one. before we start talking about. the socialist liberalism that you basically denied as you were do you sanction the soviet union which is now becoming very trying to special in the west its words fashionable in moscow an actual in russia like that kind of warred that's trials. that doesn't make you said i was there. you see i have never been opposed to socialist realism. on the contrary when perestroika began small knowing the russian nature i was one of the first to write a letter to the ministry of culture warning them against bringing down the monuments all over russia and suggested preserving the ones that are made by some

real. like any. tomsky as works of ott. so if you know that people started to smash down stalin monuments and monuments of a different political leaders. but those were done by some real. i actually seriously defend the school of socialist realism. because i had teachers like an amazing illustrator it was illustrations collaborating on. the tremendous along to come with him. my author teacher. you know she was an amazing theatrical must. have always admired for. me so i think what happened back then was a big mistake. russia is known for its extreme decisions. but if

you could solve its union collapsed it was tragically what happened too quickly. and immediately everything if it was connected with it was declared very bad. well on the other hand it's well deserved when it's russia collapsed people also destroyed all the. destroyed tortures. that's what they call germs you know it's in the old world. and that's why i suggested not to denounce it so quickly because those sculptures were true masters of the school a socialist realism. if you can't decide special order things which are clearly trouble again. the school of socialist realism world even if the world doesn't know about it yet. greet a number of truly great. britain russia has all the rise to be proud of that in. that school like a world of meet this

a lot of and sort of. for instance in the distorted linnean hugging mickey mouse and the marilyn monroe kissing stalin. or an almost pornographic by comrade unlimited stalin on the top of a naked lenin with little girls there as well. it's a nasty takeoff on what was going on. on the one hand it might be needed but it really has nothing to do with the serious school of socialist realism in. your story with a few thousand dollars it. has already become a cliché came to america with fifty bucks and. i didn't go to america i went to france. fifty dollars in your pocket when you got to france which was what hundred fifty francs at the time. was it hard to find your place you had to find in any local already seen the artistic establishment yes did you feel like

no one needs you over there. my fate was a difficult one in the sense. that but almost nine hundred seventy want. i was a mission of mine was held by i didn't invest in his gallery and you know very nice a well known gallery going to my you're my old muse who because she was his muse. his entire property. to some litigation but she laid her hands on all his houses. everything he had ever created in his lifetime. something of a lady's anything. but poor good out. of our own stalk if you use it right now. we did she was in love with me and my work. came to france. and gave me as a gift a small shutoff drum here. three days later she king to the chateau with

a contract for ten years. though i was an absolute good. russia today that is in markets. i was wise enough to see she was out to milk me. hundreds terms i was supposed to do as i was told. i had to give up my quest in the area of metaphysical synthesis and i was only allowed to do a gallon scenes and still lives because they were sold better than anything so on and so forth. do you mean you. refused to sign your contract. which you know i gave up the shut. up when i returned and three days later after reading the contract i said to my dear girls in my wonderous creature my sweet roly poly i'm giving you back the key. planted blue and dreams of us travelling in india me seeing the world and not for me. i want to exchange a plain cage for

a gilded one. left for the great wide world to the screams about any crawling back in three days on my knee. she was yelling i was a soviet but not in the west jungle i would soon learn what it was like. but i said to her proudly precisely because i'm a soviet my pride is a special one that i won't come back to you either on my knees or otherwise. you. will be back shortly. stay with us. sergeant of the israeli defense forces. during his service scorched the street

fight. if. colonel of the chilian on forces participated in keeping down a military revolt. the sergeant of the us army. tried to become an american by getting pardon the. ranks and reasons differ but one thing brings them together once they disobey.

welcome back to spotlight i am just a reminder that today we're talking about art and my guests on the show is should make. you said you had come to france with two hundred something francs in your pocket and you and your reach compared. to what it should. construct for twenty years. and you would through. with what was left of your francs is that yes the states are you sure you didn't make it wasn't because of something. green in your ability russian nature of five years i had handled some. and nested jobs. i was a menial work and the hematological and that implied that you did the dirtiest and hardest jobs. i was a hand to the city scrap yard. with a pair of rubber boots on and

a pitchfork in my hands i had to move restaurant and saw that eating house waste. so what i was handling those heavy after the first of may but it's because the first of may padres were held to a palace where waialae and eleven guys were in charge of the palace square of what they do with it so it was absolutely out of the question that i'd be scared of hard physical work the most important thing for me was my freedom and when the gallery owner encroached upon the holy of holies my creative freedom which was my conscious choice after all i could have joined the artists union i could have made good money as a black and white artist i think but did you really feel you support your first encounter with the sheeple that contrary to your really feel that you war in the free world after all. do you really boast the freedom which the soviet union left yes of course the absolute freedom i wasn't seeing portraits of landing on each corner.

everywhere you know we're still beyond that numerous as lenin so that's one thing for another and you fairly well that if the conditions where i lived would just a pool and there was no heating the windows were smashed and hammered some plywood on and painted the walls as good as they managed. there was no kitchen at the will nor generally anything to look for it was an abandoned me where i began my new life and i was happy i was happy for one simple reason because i knew that no one would invade my friend mrs without even a search warrant no one would drum machine my books drawings easels and. at six in the morning and you knew that i wouldn't be taken for questioning. the word up read on it as it happened in the past and most importantly i wouldn't be confined to a mad house they didn't get me with god knows what in short i was walling and happiness. and where money or poverty was concerned i wasn't frightened at all i

didn't come to us from the sky i didn't think i was a genius do you believe you're one know it's there because you said i didn't. know i'm describing the frame of mind i was in shock. and i felt the other way about it . nor would i make a new shows a ball. and be just marking time the big problem with some guys because at that time we were all nonconformists and had the same status regardless of how good. a stick skills were but when we began making it to the west became clear that some were not quite so good painters others are not so good sculptors and it's natural if i differences cropped up for me i came knowing full well that if i had to take or a normal job take it without thinking twice i even have an article entitled. hand i keep it in.

by the way one of the latest project. based on. fairy tales. details. this fantasy world is coming though i have a new. idea. the famous audience has been cherishing it since. the stream has turned into the biggest project that there were. has worked on since the collapse of the. no computer animation or special effects on the. motion with its unique atmosphere to created shoemaking had to first make sketches for the one hundred fifty characters in the seventy eight minute. vision of hoffman's world his want to be trusted the russian audience has never denied the chairman of his influence. hoffman himself is the main character in the new cartoon during his

lifetime he found refuge in the true work likewise the animated hoffman is travelling in the mystical world of his own tales which is produced in his own nature nation. this particular fairytale for children is also becoming the philosophical drama sound of the rounding should escape isn't through life. you've been working on for some time now on the small orange phone there's the you know armidale on the fairy tale writer so many eddie as you call it you promised it would hit the screens in two thousand and nine we didn't see it any time soon. the problem as usual. we're making a piece by piece ten or fifteen minutes a film and then wait for the sponsors should all wait for the government to shell out it was not mostly the entire project has been stalled for several years because the russian government lacks the money to sponsor the project at all which is a truly that expanse or a what is

a ballpark figure that goes into fooling third soon just peanuts i don't even say how much it was really never let me know but i know the conditions we've been working in so little why don't you invest some of your and money spent that it already it's way usually i have nothing but debts. quite happy for what i have in my pockets. because what used to be knocked over a career in the marine ski future. not only that stage five bali's. why do you like this offer so much. let me explain the son of a very jealous when i didn't company and possibly even half of the family would my actress model and when he fell in love with her. hand in marriage on the condition that she'd follow him to the battle for. two and

a half years my mother served with my father's cavalry division it was during the war during the war. but when your humble servant was conceived to the rule of cannons additional in the time came for my mother to give birth i was sent to moscow where i was born. after my birth mother again went to join father taking me along and would follow the division with the baggage train and thus reached bury today's a kaliningrad where i grew up. at the. beginning. my father was the military commander after cunningsburgh became kaliningrad and the germans were removed my father was sent for further service to saxony. he grew up in germany till nine hundred fifty eight. my mother well educated person was fond of the german romantics. and it was the german romantics writings. their favorite

tales. in my mind. not their brothers. but i see the green brothers too they're not quite in the romantic category well they retailed white cruel. there is little romanticism in them and much fantasy. you handle many productions including is a theatrical designer. what is your attitude more than music you seem to be a man who'd rather use something composed. you know they are age or would you. more than music there's a stylistic vice. that. you know you're not quite tried there because my second larry. the magic cannot continue as an elaborate as it were in the not correct. it is its first act at the y.

and not cracka became the not correct but it was used of several choreographers to fit it into a tchaikovsky school but most of it was unbearably tough it was illegible. he stood a story of the prince's spittle a part of the story of the magic of not a cracker to what he decided to make a new scenario and i wrote a new libretto. eve and i asked a friend who in my youth is in a very good we have a hard poser in the positive sense of the word sergei slim's. try to score to my libretto for his wally but the more. system some unimaginable sounds and. i simply didn't know it. was like me secured for not try to call the right way. when you were made an appearance in moscow

i mean those with children people started saying that she knocking. supposed to give people education. here really believe in this. week or are you more support you for all the art for art's sake approach. he wants both. to read. they would not have been such tyrants. the truth is it's a nice phrase and an interesting one. who sometimes say that god can change mankind . change some individual people. more interested. but not position itself is a sort of messiah. and i don't think of myself as a missionary. i think that we do things that are required by the presence of science or live in. my society or yourself.

but i cannot live without thought. there were times when i was painted at night and worked as a menial work during the day time clearing snow knew for sure that my paintings would not be exhibited and would not make any money and i could not and still cannot live without it as a real artist. thank you thank you very much and just a reminder that. it was my guest on this show today and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your lights or if you have some in the minds who you think. that's it for now we'll be back tomorrow with more first and comment on what's going on. until then. take.