Folk art and Soviet-style purges: How Europe’s populists are hijacking arts and culture
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Folk art and Soviet-style purges: How Europe’s populists are hijacking arts and culture

Across the EU, far-right and populist governments are defunding museums, censoring artists and stacking cultural institutions with loyalists, often to advance a political ideology.
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