“There has long been a brisk trade in the kitsch symbols of communism – the hammers and sickles, portraits of Marx and Engels, red stars and Warhol’s Mao. The sales of this imagery, mostly among young people for whom it has little or no real historical meaning, soared after the Berlin wall crumbled more than 10 years ago, according to collectors. These days, however, there is also a burgeoning interest in the Socialist Realist art created under communism by good and occasionally great painters who were reduced to simplistic compositions-glorified workers with chiseled faces and bulging arms, happy comrades astride tractors, bricklayers building the concrete Stalinist fortresses that now mar the cityscapes of Central Europe.” – Chicago Tribune