"Don't you know how to paint? My grandson will paint it better! What is this? Are you men or damned pederasts? How can you paint like that? Do you have a conscience?"
— Nikita Khrushchev

January 1, 1970

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Politicians from RussiaGeneral Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet UnionPoliticians from UkraineSoviet premiersAtheists from Russia
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Said to avant-garde artists Ely Bielutin and Ernst Neizvestny during a visit to their exhibition (1 December 1962)