Art and genocide…why doesn’t Soviet and

Art and genocide…why doesn’t Soviet and Communist Chinese propaganda imagery offend us like Nazi propaganda does? The Stalinist and Maoist regimes were responsible for more deaths than the Nazis.

• Adolf Hitler
• communism
• design
• genocide
• josefstalin
• maotsetung
• Nazis
• propaganda

Two unconnected thoughts

Or are they? I was trying to think of Stalin’s first name last night and came up with the following before I remembered it was Josef:

- Richard
- Bill

I had myself convinced for an uncomfortably long moment that Bill Stalin was in fact correct.

Over the past two years — including weekends, holidays, time off, and all of the 24 hours in a day — kottke.org has changed every 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 51 seconds. Over the past 30 days, there’s been something new here every 3 hours, 21 minutes, and 7 seconds. This pace may have some bearing on the above Stalin matter. I still remember to bathe regularly, but that may be the next to go.

• josefstalin
• kottke.org