Treat in the Soviet Sci-Fi art

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

In Soviet sci-fi, art is one typical element. That element is a treat, what is hidden in the innocent pieces of elements. In the above, the text is a poster of the Soviet Sci-fi film from the 1950's and in the first sight, it would seem the spacecraft, where are cosmonauts, who are making their experiments in the zero-gravity space, and hanging between the floor and roof of this chamber. But then we are going to look this spacecraft more careful, and we might see the things very different way than before because those men seem like be some kind of rats in the test tube.

And there is a treat inside the spacecraft. When we are looking those windows more careful, we might see something, what we don't want to see. If this little chamber would think as the execution device, the high-tech gas chamber what uses radio waves and electric arc for execution method this kind of things would make very interesting and horrifying thoughts in the head. If some execution chamber would have the equipment, what uses electric arc,  that will cause the effect, where the victim would turn to ash.

So has this kind of device been the fate of some lost cosmonauts? If the electric arc would use for executions, and it would install in the spacecraft, why KGB choose those persons for targeted that kind of weapon? When we are thinking about lost cosmonauts, those stories seem like true. But were those cosmonauts lost in holidays, or did they lost during the spaceflight? This is the question, what is very interesting. And if that kind of execution device is used for those men, we must ask, why KGB choose so complicated method for that thing? What those persons might do for earning that kind of service?

When we are thinking about the art, the pictures, what the artist makes to the paper or canvas are not forming without reason. Actually, the painter or other pictorial artist transfer the picture from the mind to the painting or other picture. And this makes art dangerous. When we are thinking about the flow of images, what is coming in the mind of the artist there must be some reason, why this person chooses those images for the painting or drawing. Also, the mind needs "food" or as the psychologists say, the stimulant for creating or synthesizing the images inside it. And this makes art very interesting.

The artist must see or hear something before the painting would be forming in the mind, and transferring the image to the canvas is also the process, where the hand co-operates with the mind, what is actually the key element, what makes an artist. Ability to create the image inside the mind and transfer it to the picture is a gift, what makes a person very interesting, but in fact, those people might be quite "different" than so-called normal persons. What sometimes causes the problems for the social life of the artists. This is one thing, what people would notice when they are reading the biographies of the famous painters, and in the cases like Leonardo da Vinci, we must say, that he was the very interesting person, genius, productive and in the same time different than ordinary people. But the geniuses are usually different than ordinary people. And that is the prize of the gift, what makes extraordinary people for the world.

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Painting "Zhertva" from the hand of the artist Galina Solotomina

"Zhertva" Galina Solotonina, 1973
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Kimmo Huosionmaa

The Soviet painting "Zhertva" ("Sacrifice") by Galina Solotonina from the year 1973 is one very interesting picture because even if it the artist's self-portrait, there is painted the character, what can be woman or man, and that character seems to play chess in the candlelight, and character is portrayed in the point of view of the opponent player. This painting is a typical Soviet art, and that means it's technically very impressive, and the thing, what this painting would want to say, is something, what we cannot expect. That painting has the very strong message, and it's that ever underestimate your opponents. The person who might sit next to you can be actually something, what you cannot ever think about.

Even if you would see the old lady, who have ever played chess before, there could be the trap, because the gaming situation can be under the surveillance, and that person can follow the orders, what is given for that person by using radio-transmitters, and the game can be followed by cameras. Then that real player who would tell, how to move chess pieces. Or there could be all the team of those chess players for giving support for that player. Also is possible that this woman is secretly the Chessmaster. Maybe she has played before acting male player.

Or she has been trained by the Soviet chess organization secretly and then put to some big game for humiliating other players. In those cases, the plan would be that the propaganda officials would want to show, that Western players cannot win even the beginner. And that's why this lady has been brought to that chess game. If that planning would work, the other side would seem like idiota, because the lady, who have ever played chess before can win those other players. The message of this picture is that people must play their game until it ends, and nothing has been won until the other side king have been fallen.

In this painting have been captured the purpose of the Soviet people. They should serve the government. And in that country, the thing, what people must remember, was that everybody can be secret police official. Everything in the world may have purposes, what people don't even think, that they could have. In the Soviet Union.

Everything had political purposes, that meant, that there could be strange events in the most common things and one of the most remarkable things in that kind of political system is, that if some person would cause disappointment could send that person straight to prison. Chess was one thing what was important in the Soviet propaganda.

The system used also in the choosing the persons, who have the good strategical angle of view in the military command system. And once one man, named Ilya Ivanov created the idea of eugenics. In that program, the chess system would be used to making pairs with the top level chess players, who could also be very intelligent. This man had the dubious publicity by cutting dogs heads off and keeping the head alive by using cardiac lung machine, what helped to increase the lifetime of those removed heads. And this man could create the idea, that the chess system would be used for choosing extreme intelligent for the parents of the elite Soviet youngsters. But this is only the thinking about this kind of things, what might have a big role in somebody's life.

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