Ever notice how the first targets in a crackdown are painters, poets, designers, and musicians?
We unpack why creativity terrifies the powerful and how images, jokes, and typography can loosen the grip of official narratives. From Plato’s plan to expel poets to Osip Mandelstam’s lethal epigram about Stalin, we follow the thread of art’s subversive power and the real risks makers take when they refuse to look away.
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