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2026-01-24 13:06 UTC

If you visit the communism museum in Prague, you’ll learn all about the horrors of being under the thumb of the USSR. And then at the end you’ll see a photograph of the cottage in the countryside where Vaclav Havel and others plotted the revolution with a text explaining that, like many Czech people, Havel owned a second home in the countryside where they would often spend weekends and holidays. For all the bad, the communists did a much better job on housing than the capitalists.

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@Aljernon@lemmy.today 2026-01-25 07:45

To be fair, the USSR had the worse economy in the Warsaw pact. (and to be fair to the USSR, the massive distances and relative emptiness of their country added alot to transportation expenses)

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@Riverside@reddthat.com 2026-01-26 09:16

If you visit the communism museum in Prague, you’ll learn all about the horrors of being under the thumb of the USSR Where is the Prague museum of the pre-communist horrors? What was the life expectancy in Czechia before Bolshevism? Do you have a museum of the Great Depression too? Of the Austro-Hungarian repression of Czech people? Of the unequal development in Czechia and Slovakia during the Czechoslovak republic? Do you have a museum of the industrialization during the USSR and the corresponding rise in living standards?Nah, you just have anticommunist propaganda because the point is to prevent socialism, not to actually make historical analysis of the living conditions of the people.

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