Surkov on Allen & Tupac (& Jackson Pollock)

[Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)]

It's not every day you get such a glorious global name-check! (new Cold War name-dropping/ name-calling?)

Vladislav Surkov, the Russian power-broker, eminence grise (and, now, under-the-sanctions-of-the-US Russian power-broker)

whose rendition of Allen's "Sunflower Sutra" we featured here last year.

(Here it is again in case you missed it (it begins approximately two-minutes in))

So, his statement, made to the Russian newspaper, Moskovsky Komsomolets:

"...The only things that interest me in the U.S. are Tupac Shakur,Allen Ginsberg, and Jackson Pollock. I don't need a visa to access their work. I lose nothing."

Tupac, Allen and Jackson Pollock, eh? - so that's the troika?

[Tupac Shakur (1971-1996] [Jackson Pollock (1912-1956)]