In the name of Gas and Oligarchs … Amen!

Once more, the perfidious Albion has joined the exploiters circle by voting without hesitation and in complete haste a villainous law meant to deprive Morozov’s and Shchukin’s heirs.

How could the habeas corpus homeland, in emergency and under the pressure of Russian authorities, allow that the legal owners of these fabulous collections wouldn’t be recognized and would find it impossible to claim their legitimate rights? Imagine we would do the same with the crown jewels decreeing their nationalization, there would be a general outcry and everybody would call it a crime of lèse-majesté! Under the pretext that the sponsors of this exhibition depend on Gazprom for their supplying, was it necessary to go as far as to put forward the reason of State whereas in fact it’s a hold-up organized with the voluntary assistance of the English government. Forgotten the closed British Councils in Russia, forgotten the poisoned citizens, what wouldn’t one do to let the so-British good folks gaze at stolen paintings deliberately forgetting to indemnify the real owners. During that time, the gasmen (sponsors) grow still a little richer at the expense of the poor wretches dispossessed by the Father of Nations who gave the homo sovieticus the possibility to acquire a semblance of culture at low price.

As you can note, when it comes to money, buddies and rascals meet in a London taxi and come to terms with the devil for the time of a dance that Matisse wouldn’t renounce. Saint Gazprom, make the firsts become the lasts and give back to Cesar what belongs to Cesar or give back to Shchukin and Morozov what is theirs by right.