Current Affairs "Comrades, it's not a fact, it really happened!" - a new project maps the absurdities of Communist Czechoslovakia
"Comrades, it's not a fact, it really happened!" - that is just one of many absurd phrases recalled from the days of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime: nonsensical decrees, statements, slogans, and citations that reveal the absurdity, ineptness, and general intellectual decline of the period. Elements now recalled in a new project launched by Senator Jaroslava Moserova in conjunction with the Foundation of Czech National Museums and Galleries, striving to save such relics before it's too late. According to Senator Moserova: those who remember are only getting older and dying out, and clearly there is an urgency for proof of the absurdities of Communism to be complied and retained while there's still time. But, the motivation is manifold: since 1989 institutions in the Czech Republic mapped the crimes of Communism but missed the tragi-comic aspect of the regime - absurdities that would have caused those who despised the regime to snicker under their breath, to laugh behind closed doors, but also to weep.
Jaroslava Moserova
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