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'Just the way the Nazis did': Evidence suggests Russians are stealing art from Ukraine on a World War II scale
“Our research suggests that this looting is state-sponsored by Russia,” said a researcher at the Smithsonian Institution, which is preparing a report on the massive scale of the theft. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/r...ar-2-rcna77879
As Russians Steal Ukraine’s Art, They Attack Its Identity, Too
Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of pieces, including avant-garde oil paintings and Scythian gold. Experts say it is the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II, intended to strip Ukraine of its cultural heritage.
“They were loading such masterpieces, which there are no more in the world, as if they were garbage,” said the museum’s longtime director, Alina Dotsenko, who recently returned from exile, recounting what employees and witnesses had told her. When she came back to the museum in early November and grasped how much had been stolen, she said, “I almost lost my mind.” As Russians Steal Ukraine’s Art, They Attack Its Identity, Too — CAJM
I wonder what will happen to it. I wonder if some of it will end up in the private collections of various elite figures. Some of it might turn up at auction houses, to help finance the war and other state expenditures.
Let's keep an eye out for it, in London, NYC and other auction houses . Would be interesting to see, also, if any auction houses report it as potentially stolen, if it passes through their hands.
This is one reason, and only one reason, why war is called a "dirty business."
I very much doubt, when that phrase was first uttered, that anyone was thinking at all of art.
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