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Museum of Communism in Prague imitates the People's Cube

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We knew that Prague hosted a glorious Museum of Communism, but we didn't realize those comrades were also good at generating original humorous propaganda similar to what is being heroically produced by the People's Cube Department of Visual Agitation.

The images were scattered all over the Internet, so the boys down in Visual Agitation spent quite some time collecting them from various sites and bringing them up to standard. This may well be the most complete online collection so far.

The museum's theme is "Communism - the Dream, the Reality, and the Nightmare." The immersive experience includes a historical schoolroom, an Interrogation Room, state-run factories, or the video clips in the Television Time Machine.

Other exhibits cover such topics as daily life, politics, history, sports, economics, education, Socialist Realism Art, media propaganda, censorship, the army, the police, the secret police, judiciary and coercive institutions, including the Stalinist show-trials and political labor camps.

If you're not visiting the Czech Republic anytime soon, you can take this virtual tour, sit back, and enjoy the wonders of The Glorious World of Next Tuesday.

And then there's the souvenir shop where we would probably spend as much time browsing their posters and postcards as we would inside the rest of the museum. See for yourselves.

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And these are the posters created a few years back to promote the "Get Intimate with History" exhibition at the museum.

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Image Awesome. Bloody awesome. Why, oh why can the West not see what is so obvious to those lived under Communism/Socialism/Progressivism?


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Battlebot Potemkin wrote:Why, oh why can the West not see what is so obvious to those lived under Communism/Socialism/Progressivism?
Because the KGB did such a glorious job with their Subversion campaign here in the USSA, Comrade.

Starting in the 1930's and 1940's, they infiltrated virtually every American institution -- one of them became Vice President of the United States, and only missed becoming President by about three weeks -- and much of their effort was concentrated in the Educational sector.

Indeed, the architect of the US Publik Skool system was an out-of-the-closet Marxist, and Soviet sympathizer: John Dewey.

First they took control of the universities, especially the ones that trained schoolteachers. By the 1970s the head of the National Education Association (publik skool teacher's union) was an out-of-the-closet Marxist himself.

So to answer your question, the West cannot see it because the West has been brainwashed indoctrinated against being able to see it.

My real-life counterpart recently had a highly disturbing exchange with one of these on the social media site Google Plus:

https://plus.google.com/105727606327475388628/posts/BYedzh3Wuqs

The kid just couldn't accept reality er, uh, I mean the Capitalist myths.

And THAT is the answer to your question, Comrade Potemkin.

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This wonderful display of posters got me rummaging through my piles of discarded nut shells and look what I found! I think this poster was Comrade Putout's inspiration for the famous Esteemed Holder of the Flag Pole™ logo. I wonder if I should send this to the museum?

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Mikael Lysenkomann wrote:Indeed, the architect of the US Publik Skool system was an out-of-the-closet Marxist, and Soviet sympathizer: John Dewey.

Out of the closet, you say? With no experience in education? And a Marxist as well?

Imagine that, comrades! The policy of public schools being dictated by someone with queer sympathies, no educational experience, plus a Commie!

How the times never change!


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[color=#C0392B]Captain Craptek[/color] thought he was making a joke when he wrote:This wonderful display of posters got me rummaging through my piles of discarded nut shells and look what I found! I think this poster was Comrade Putout's inspiration for the famous Esteemed Holder of the Flag Pole™ logo. I wonder if I should send this to the museum?

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I was always his favorite...
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Comrade Putout wrote:.
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How did you get this!? I didn't know that Gulags Gone Wild allowed sneak peeks. But who'll be the -ahem- "other half" of this "adult" movie?

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The glorious praise of our communist brethren is spreading.... If I were not afraid of wasting water I would shed a tear.


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There is also a similar interactive DDR Museum in Berlin - perhaps, Genosse Dummkopf can elucidate?

A friend of a friend went there recently, tried to create the New Man and failed, then posted this on Facebook:

I have scored poorly on my quest to create a "new socialist human" - a fun interactive game at the DDR Museum (East Germany Museum). You get to pick outfits and accessories for your character in an attempt to make a perfect socialist. Unfortunately they didn't have an option for a Bernie t-shirt, which I'm sure would have overcome all my other shortcomings.
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o yep, and some Lithuanian terms come instantly to my mind, as well as a few Hungarian ones. Just wait, young cadres, I vill giff yu a lesson vrom ze Gloria‒Of‒Ze‒Past!


UPD (2020-09-17)
Hah! Other times, other places, but TPC got Gloria‒Of‒Ze‒Past bunkered galore, see e.g. here.

Keywords (and links are given in the mentioned post):

(Lithuania) Grutas, Grūtas Park, Grūto parkas
(Hungary) Szoborpark, Szoborpark Múzeum in Budapest.


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I'm considering a city trip Prague just for this museum!

While we're at it: I can recommend the old Stasi prison, now a museum, in east Berlin. It is run by a German anti-stalinist group (spit, spit).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Museum

It's a great place for us confirmed progressives, where you can learn new and interesting ways to control the masses. Their system of psychological torture and their network of literally millions of "civilian informants" are an example to us all.

There's even a video guide:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405094/

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ja, Genossen, uh, yes, Comrades - you see vot good cooperation vee haf, here in ze Yurop!
zanks, Minitrue - you truly an expert on True Ministry, including Herr Mielke's MfS aka Stasi!

Comrades, you can also haf a look direkt into ze Berlin Stasi Museum, for ze English.


Minitrue wrote:... There's even a video guide: imdb
ja, ja - zis very good guide, very good :

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And a 5 minute guide : Berlin - Stasi Museum.
Comrades who watch zis short guide :
CONTEST! What means the soundtrack in the opening 14 seconds?

ACHTUNG! Not what is the sound (that's obvious), but what does the soundtrack mean?
(an accoustic hint of 8 seconds starts @2:36)
(if not know - but want know, or if know - but unsure, then : ask/post below!)


P.S. uh, pardon - vronk pikture, vronk pikture, here ze korrekt pikture :

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ach ja, and
wrote:... Lithuanian terms ... [and] a few Hungarian ones ... [and] I vill giff yu a lesson vrom ze Gloria‒Of‒Ze‒Past!
not forgotten!
just a TAI, Time Availability Insufficiency.


UPD (2020-09-17)
Hah! Go there, updated.

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Red Square wrote:There is also a similar interactive DDR Museum in Berlin - perhaps, Genosse Dummkopf can elucidate?

A friend of a friend went there recently, tried to create the New Man and ...
... and let's recall the result :

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Dear Comrade Friend of a Friend of Comrade Director (henceforth FoFoCoD, for socialistic brevity)!
I congratulate you on your fruitful visit in our beloved Museum and transmit to you words of International Solidarity and Brotherly Friendship vrom ze Kollektive of us, Deutsche Kommunisten, who haf vays.

Also I transmit ze Freundschaftsbekundung vrom ze Agent who sit behind ze "Monitor" and operated his knobs and levers to macke you belief zat it iz a "Kompjuter". (he still shake his head and disbelief.)

Now, Genosse FoFoCoD ‒ your performanz.

Himmelherrgott, you vhot? you bag chosen ALDI??? Genosse FoFo ‒ ALDI is kkkapitalistik burzhui! even vorse zan K-Mart & Wallmart, combined! you go to HO, ze DDR Handelsorganisation, you inzert yourself in queue (ze bag you haff bring vrom sweet home), and you do Schlangestehen. See like ze Schlange ‒ zat queue ‒ make steadily Progress? (vhen it moves, of kors.)

Next ‒ ze flag. Verdammtnochamol, you krazy??? BFC? Berliner Fußball Club Dynamo e. V.??? socialistic, true, yet still ‒ just ball kickers? you not see korrekt flag ‒ FDJ? or SED? or Stasi?

Now, your person ‒ FoFoCoD, the New Genosse. _Sowjetmensch 2.0 .

Beard ‒ vell, Marxo-Engelsian, viz a touch of Leninistic. Good! (but very good iz no beard, and perhaps Dummkopf-beard, ja? odzerwise you look strongly a post-Marx hyppie.)

Head on ‒ good. Going build Glorious Khrushchyovka (but not viz Marx-beard, ja?). Khrushchyovka and Further Progress, ja.

Shoes ‒ vhot iz zat? vhot, ze fukk, iz zat? you gonna build Socializm & Khrushchyovka a fukkin' Birkenstockler??? Amerikkkanz, ze philistines. No idea of anyzink. FoFoCoD ‒ you can fukkin' strut and goosestep in Birkenstocks (with socks) in eco-militant West Dshermani, but not here, DDR!

Parka ‒ good. Insignia ‒ sehr gut! FDJ! and SED! jawohl!

But ‒ necklace? GHETTO? you an effin' Joo, FoFo? or some Kanye Snoop Dogg? bling-bling and ghettoblaster make not for blockbuster, in Khrushchyovka blocks!

Book ‒ looks like SPIEGEL, subversive imperialistik West-leftish organ. But not pick on you, wannabe-Genosse FoFoCoD.

Schnitte, uh, sandwhitch viz Schinken ‒ korrekt. Want build Future, must Eat.

Flowers ‒ himmelarschundzwirrnkreuzgewitterrwolkenbrrruch, FoFoCoD!!! flowers? FLOWERS??? a shovel, Comrade ‒ a SHOVEL! grab a shovel, or you get a free ride to Kolyma! or Umiat, AK.

Vhen shoveled 150% norm, zen go HO, Schlangestehen, bread (if get) take home, eat. Jawohl.


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( Lebensmittel = foodstuff )

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Post scriptum to Komrade FoFoCoD (above) :

Genosse FoFoCoD, no worry ‒ you half a Dummkopf, ok, but odzers komplete idiots, you vatch :

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and here the solution ‒ the single valid one, Party certified :
(it's gender-sensitive, or gender-oppressive ‒ depending on your "fainting couch" profile) :

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(and don't ask me why ‒ too much to explain)

now see the shmock (yet still : 18 / 70) :

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hat good! no beard ‒ korrekt! pullover ‒ bravo, socialistic!

bbb-bb-but... vot? Birkenstock-ALDI-GHETTO-Flowers????? and, jejjjsusmariiijjja, zat symbol!

Donnerwetter, zat clown just won a free ride to Kolyma!

Fish ‒ you see, FISH! zat FISH! ΙΧΘΥΣ! pointing to INRI! and thusly to a faction of DDR dissidents, the one embraced by the, however controlled and suppressed Church.

(ΙΧΘΥΣ symbolics shortly explained e. g. in WPedia.)
and that PEACE symbol...
sure, Soviet Orbit was all PEACE ‒ but not viz hyppie symbolics! hyppie, it vos dekadent!!!



didn't help zis clownette either ‒ a 1 / 70 (and that 1, sure as hell, just for her juicy boobs) :

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and this 0 / 70 parasite did, whether random or perfidiously, everyzink he could to self-derail :

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but here, finally, a most equally korrekt rabotnitsa :

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... and you can easily see where she lost those 9 points, dont'cha?
(yep, the PEACE thing. It's Progressive, korrekt, and yet ‒ Western!, dekadent, period.)

(don't ask me why. It starts ‒ seriously! ‒ with Picasso, and his Peace-symbolics in the early '50s, and how he was wooed by Comintern, and how he dodged being, uh, pwned by Global Agitprop, Communist Edition.)


P.S.
This Museum self-promo shows the (highly interactive) look and feel of that remarkable place :


And here self-presentation ‒ DDR Museum's highlights .

Good photo material ‒ random, yet nicely compiled in one (branching) place ‒ on Pinterest.
(of course ‒ vee haff our vays ‒ there is also the Bundesarchiv, but that's for deeper study.)

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"The Truth About Communism" documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan, 1962


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Red Square wrote:"The Truth About Communism" documentary narrated by Ronald Reagan, 1962


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I always enjoyed this one, narrated by Mr. Dragnet himself - Jack Webb!

Red Nightmare (1962)



I like it better than most anti-communist films because it doesn't just tell you about what will happen to America under communism, it actually shows you in all communism's horror. Every red-blooded American will be shocked and horrified by it, to see every part of good, solid American life destroyed or turned upside-down. But, at the same time, it's also comforting, because it shows that most of America isn't entrenched in this communist horror, isn't lost yet, and that it can be taken back.

Jack's statement at the end is one of the most powerful warnings on freedom I have ever seen. This ethic of "Freedom is a right, it can't be taken away from you" that's cropped up in the past 50 years is just as dangerous to freedom as communism. Thomas Jefferson said it right when he said "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance".


 
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