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Diego Rivera’s art reflected his communist ideologies. Which mural was destroyed because Rivera included Lenin, the Communist leader of the Soviet Union, in the mural?

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"The Man at the Crossroads of Paths

Diego Rivera, was a famous Mexican artist, known for painting works of high social content in public buildings and walls in Mexico and the USA.

In 1933, tycoon John Rockefeller hired Rivera to paint a mural at the entrance to his RCA building in New York, a symbol of capitalism.

Then Rivera drew the mural under the theme "The Man at the Crossroads of Paths" and added a portrait of Lenin, the leader of the Soviet revolution of 1919. Rockefeller interpreted it as an insult and destroyed the mural.

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