| English term or phrase: what was lost by the people | | Consequently, these objects constitute a visual heritage of political terror, and monuments of the psychological pressure (and intentional and financial repression) exerted on individual creativity. We shouldn't, however, confuse things. Objects from that time are not a crime. They are rather witnesses to the crimes of history, a visual heritage of the epoch, which must be preserved and cherished: if we are to feel any sympathy for what was lost by people living in that era; and to separate individuals from their creatively constrained art works - even if the consequences of this aesthetic repression are still felt in the former East |
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