Я не знаю, замечали вы или нет, но...

I don’t know if you noticed or not, but people who work for the modern Russian government have a strikingly bad taste. Whether it’s a prosecutor at the Navalny trial, who has photos with anchors on his forearms in Odnoklassniki, Yevgeny Vasilyev from the Ministry of Defense, who writes poems “Asymmetry happened to us, asymmetry came to our house”, an Orthodox patriot Vladimir Yakunin with green porcelain plates on the walls summer cottages, Corinthian columns (and always have a fireplace icon nearby) at Astakhov's cottage in Nice. My acquaintances are female persons who work in Itar-tass, put on fishnet stockings with large black flowers, and next to them on Facebook they must have a little pride for the victory of the Russian hockey team. Russia Today journalists correspond on Instagram with the words “finally,” “instagram,” “shoot in the mirror,” “take a picture,” “we are like that on the swag.” And you just have to lightly google another aunt who forbade a children's play, you will find her lying on a high-pile synthetic blanket with cute orange ponytails around the bed.
This is probably somehow connected: work for power, stockings with flowers, green porcelain plates and "Hurray! Russia !!!" capsloc. I just don’t understand one thing - is it God's punishment or professional deformation? Is bad taste a prerequisite for working in a state institution or a consequence of being in power? Indeed, it seems that this was not always the case. After all, Stalin had an excellent taste. After him, everything was much worse. Soviet cities, Soviet homes, the Soviet automobile industry and Soviet light industry were created by people with surprisingly poor taste, but often it was a consequence of poor education, narrow horizons and poverty. And now - there is money, you travel around the world, and in the living room all the same Corinthian columns with icons. In different years, on the side of the Soviet regime there were writers, artists, musicians, whose human qualities, one may have doubts about, but everything was in order with taste: Mayakovsky, Gaidar, Kataev, Sholokhov, for example. And now, they cannot draw a card for the celebration of the “joining” of Crimea into the whole house. We started selling T-shirts with Putin in GUM, why can't you make a bright and shameful design for them? Why, if you glorify modern Russian statehood, is this done so tasteless? I think this is the difference between the Soviet government and the present - aesthetically developed people do not work for it. They apparently have stylistic disagreements with her. And this is very good.