The Museum of Communism, Prague

[The Idler]

Anyone been to the Museum of Communism in Prague (http://www.muzeumkomunismu.cz/)? Anyone protested outside it? The Guardian reviewed it here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4369153,00.html).

[ls]

The Guardian are a bunch of wankers, just like the guys who set this museum up.

There should be figures of Keynes, Mises and Gustav on display in there, or rather their decomposed decapitated heads, Lenin's should be restored.

[eyedrop]

I was at the museum this summer. It was just a standard crappy museum with plenty of historical distortion. The museum of medieval torture instruments was way better in Prague.

[Das war einmal]

I was there like 4 years ago or something. It was very hilarious, they fail hard at being clever. Example: at the entrance of the video room there hangs a false 'Stalin' quote ('The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic', which is really, a quote of the German writer Erich Maria Remarque). So I was thinking 'all right, now I will experience a good example of Stalinist brutality'. So what was shown? People protesting in 1989 being treated like every other protester in the world: the police used water cannons and used sticks to beat some of them... yeah uhm, what point did I miss between the quote and this example????

[Dimentio]

I was there like 4 years ago or something. It was very hilarious, they fail hard at being clever. Example: at the entrance of the video room there hangs a false 'Stalin' quote ('The death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is a statistic', which is really, a quote of the German writer Erich Maria Remarque). So I was thinking 'all right, now I will experience a good example of Stalinist brutality'. So what was shown? People protesting in 1989 being treated like every other protester in the world: the police used water cannons and used sticks to beat some of them... yeah uhm, what point did I miss between the quote and this example????

That sounds quite lame for repression really. Nothing extraordinary.

[NecroCommie]

Especially considering that with a little digging they would have found some real examples of repression.