"Don't believe Wikipedia, not everything written there is true. The Soviet Artists Union was not a communist party organization. It was a professional union, which did not protect you from the government if the government decided you were the enemy, but it did give you the possibility to work in your profession and survive."

Source : "INTERVIEW: Monumenta 2014 Artists Ilya And Emilia Kabakov". Interview with Douglas MacKaye Harrington, www.hamptons.com.

Ilya Kabakov

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