🔥 HOMOGENY IN ART AND MUSIC BECAUSE THE GOV’T ENFORCED STRICT CONTROL OVER ARTISTIC EXPRESSION THROUGH A POLICY KNOWN AS SOCIALIST REALISM, AN OFFICIAL STYLE, WHICH WAS MANDATED BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND AIMED TO PROMOTE THE IDEALS OF COMMUNISM AND DEPICT SOVIET LIFE IN A POSITIVE, HEROIC LIGHT.