On a trip through Russia, I visited the Sakharov Museum in Moscow, which is a museum dedicated to Andrei Sakharov. He was a nuclear physicist and later a human rights activist in the Soviet Union.
Before I got to the permanent exhibition of Sakharov's life, there was a temporary exhibition on Moscow Conceptualism from the '70s. It suited me very well since I had just read a bit about this period.
At that time the Soviet Union was led by Leonid Brezhnev, who had taken power from Nikita Khrushchev, and tightened the grip on Moscow's art scene. However, the artists were not as persecuted as they had been under Stalin, but they could not exhibit their art in public. It is said that there was an unwritten agreement between the KGB and the artists that
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