"While Spicker hoped many Czechs would visit, he�d had no illusions.
"�I knew that tourists would be the main people to come,� he said. �Czechs are not that excited to talk about the past.�
"Marian J. Kratochvil of Institute of Contemporary History in Prague said he didn�t think that was the issue.
“The Czechs do not mind discussing things that happened during those 41 years of Communist rule; most of us are proud to have contributed to the resistance,� he said. �Others were, at least, ‘non-belligerent.�”
"But, he added, the museum �is a damned pseudo-capitalist venture, and no Czech would ever visit it.”
great stuff, ian. i was just going to post this: where can i find a museum of capitalism, with all of its filthy, murderous past, present and future? i am with mao: was the french revolution a success? it's too early to tell
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"While Spicker hoped many Czechs would visit, he�d had no illusions.
"�I knew that tourists would be the main people to come,� he said. �Czechs are not that excited to talk about the past.�
"Marian J. Kratochvil of Institute of Contemporary History in Prague said he didn�t think that was the issue.
“The Czechs do not mind discussing things that happened during those 41 years of Communist rule; most of us are proud to have contributed to the resistance,� he said. �Others were, at least, ‘non-belligerent.�”
"But, he added, the museum �is a damned pseudo-capitalist venture, and no Czech would ever visit it.”
http://www.journalism.nyu.edu/publishing/archives/livewire/archived/forty_years_aft/index.html
great stuff, ian.
i was just going to post this: where can i find a museum of capitalism, with all of its filthy, murderous past, present and future?
i am with mao: was the french revolution a success? it's too early to tell
The anti-communist propaganda and hysteria is working as intended.
Hey xl & a, Czechs are into sovereignty. They throw the missionaries in the river.
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