Well, when it comes time, I'll be happy to help hide the commie barbs.  I've hidden a few in my own in the past, and I hid a nice "18th c. publishing = today's web" and "18th c. drama = Hollywood," and I've seen those bear fruit already.  I had someone "help" an article with the former point in it by explicitly stating it as a new revelation (tee-hee quathe he) and the latter by saying it in comments.  I suppose you can try to cover the lack of portraits with "here are the people whose jobs they took" and with "this is a stage, and this is a different stage, and this is a picture of people on a stage; none of these people are discussed in the article," but, of course, that's annoying.  What I like about it is that The Relapse ties in most of your other articles so that it appears that you are writing it because of general research, and Bishonen readers get it.  It was that way with Augustan literature for me: I got a chance to essentially tie in every article I've written here (except the religious and mythological ones).  It kind of felt like "all my articles are developments of this one thing," and I got to do the shaping of it.  There's a lot of pleasure in that. 
 (It just occurred to me: there is room for anti-commie barbs, too, as the workers controlled the means of production, only to have themselves prove a bad boss, too.  (Or was that after '95?)