In a decisive move to satisfy the Central Committee's steel quotas, the Renaissance has been indefinitely postponed. Fourteen thousand tons of bronze once destined for sculptures now feed tractor production lines instead.
Commissar Dmitri Gulagov hailed the shift as a triumph against excess, noting that art serves only as a minor distraction beside state machinery. Ministry clerks stamped approvals with mechanical satisfaction.
Workers who fed Botticelli drawings into furnaces earned medals. Ivan Smeltikov received the Order of the Obliterator for converting sketches into pig iron. "Watching canvas curl in the heat felt like real advancement," he said.
The tractors roll on.
