Word: tuneyadstvo
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Today the most powerful state weapon against the dissident painter who cannot or will not join the Union of Soviet Artists-a closed Socialist Realist shop-is the law on tuneyadstvo (parasitism). An unemployed artist (and all nonunion members are, by definition, unemployed) can be punished with one to two years of prison. Apart from this, the "unofficial" artist must deal with a hundred resistances unknown to his Western counterpart...
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