Pérez Coronado, Manuel
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Pérez Coronado, Manuel
Surname
Pérez Coronado
firstName
Manuel
country origin
Mexico
gender
Male
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Pérez Coronado, Manuel
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Born in 1929, Manuel Pérez Coronado was predominantly influenced by the 1930s growing up. During the 1930s, many political ideologies such as Marxist Socialism, Capitalist Democracy, and the Totalitarianism of both Communism and Fascism were engaged in struggles for power, and epitomised the political atmosphere of the era. In the Soviet Union, Stalin’s government was in dire need of urgent funds to implement the industrialisation of the Five Year Plan. In a secret bid to acquire funds, the government proposed to sell off assets from the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), which included some two hundred and fifty paintings by the Old Masters, a number of which had been deemed irreplaceable.