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==== 2018–2020: GHOSTS IN THE ARCHITECTURE ====

By the end of 2018, the Russian state had firmly positioned the Gershovitz siblings as icons of a selectively sanitized heritage. Meanwhile, a digital underground, especially among young artists and émigrés, pushed back with increasingly bold reinterpretations.

===== Key Events =====
* 2019: A new Russian state history curriculum includes a chapter titled “Soviet Art Under Pressure: Strength Through Suffering”. A sanitized version of Yakob’s Symphony No. 3 is used as an example of “overcoming dissonance through national devotion.”
* 2020: A New York dance collective, led by the granddaughter of one of Franka’s original students, stages Iron Flowers using AI-generated choreography derived from Franka’s journals. The performance goes viral on TikTok under #GhostOfFranka.
* 2020 (Russia): The Ministry of Culture hosts a Centennial Exhibition on “Russian Spiritual Modernism,” prominently featuring Yakob and Franka—but not Israel. A single placard mentions: > “The siblings overcame their personal and ethnic heritage to serve Soviet greatness.”

Their Judaism is rebranded as an obstacle. Their survival becomes proof of patriotism.