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Modern art was a CIA plot

2014-08-13 18:29:32.363941+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Modern Art was a CIA weapon. The CIA was funding Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, etc:

Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.

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