I think most of us will agree, that in much of the Eastern Block, there was very little freedom of expression and thought for artists and scientists. Most famously, people were barred from exiting the country to receive Nobel prizes, the governments of the USSR would, through Lysenkoist ideologies, direct scientific research to fit the ideological goals of the state, and art would be fully subjetced(or the authorities would attempt to fully subject it) to the ideological goals of Marxism-Leninism.
The goal is to change all that with a PoD of the revolution of 1905. Of course, you still need to have a block of Marxist-Leninist/other type of communist states that coalesce around Russia, with Russia being the most powerful partner and leader. As I understand it, there is also an intellectual basis in parts of the left for using art for ideological goals: I think it was Walter Benjamin that wrote that as fascism is the domination of ideological aesthetics over politics, the left must answer with the domination of ideological art over politics. Cold be completely wrong here, and if I am don't hesitate to call me out, but I think that you'd need to make some deep changes either to the intellectual basis of parts of the left, or fundamentally change the structure of the Warsaw Pact regimes.
If this could be done, then, what would be the effects? Could there have been more scientific advancement across the board had scientists, mathematicians, physicists been allowed more freedoms? How would more artistic liberties have shaped people and artists like Miklos Janszo, Andrei Tarkovsky or other great artists, directors and writers hailing from the Eastern Block?
The goal is to change all that with a PoD of the revolution of 1905. Of course, you still need to have a block of Marxist-Leninist/other type of communist states that coalesce around Russia, with Russia being the most powerful partner and leader. As I understand it, there is also an intellectual basis in parts of the left for using art for ideological goals: I think it was Walter Benjamin that wrote that as fascism is the domination of ideological aesthetics over politics, the left must answer with the domination of ideological art over politics. Cold be completely wrong here, and if I am don't hesitate to call me out, but I think that you'd need to make some deep changes either to the intellectual basis of parts of the left, or fundamentally change the structure of the Warsaw Pact regimes.
If this could be done, then, what would be the effects? Could there have been more scientific advancement across the board had scientists, mathematicians, physicists been allowed more freedoms? How would more artistic liberties have shaped people and artists like Miklos Janszo, Andrei Tarkovsky or other great artists, directors and writers hailing from the Eastern Block?