The Mystery of the Twentieth Century, 1977 (oil on canvas)

A sequence of widely recognizable scenes represents the twentieth century, forbidden by communism. On the left there is a portrait of the artist as a young man, in a later version from the Nineties on the right there is his portrait at a later age. Recognizable from left to right: Leo Tolstoy, the murdered Tsarevich, Tsar Nicholas II, Rasputin, Mayakovsky, Lenin, Trotsky, Einstein, Armstrong, Hemingway, Sartre, Picasso, Mussolini, Hitler, the swastika symbol, the cosmonaut, Churchill, Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin, the Brandenburg Gate, Stalin dead in a river of blood, Mao, the footballer, the teddy-boy, Che Guevara, Castro, King Kong, Ho Ci-min, Khrushchev, Pope John XXIII, John Kennedy, the Beatles, the pin-up, Mandrake, the Sphinx, Mike Jagger, old Russia, Allen Ginsberg, Golda Meir, Dayan, the dove of peace, the mushroom cloud, the monument to the victory of socialist, Solzhenitsyn. Above Jesus Christ and the Winged Victory of Samothrace.