Sovkitsch funny postcards

I've been to this museum, it's quite interesting though I think the Anti-Communism Museum would be a better name. They had a lot more examples of this cards in the shop, it's too bad they only put these three up on the website.

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#3 posted by Nay likes you , December 6, 2008 2:16 PM

I agree that the museum is interesting, but if you are in Prague I recommend only visiting the gift shop at the entrance. It's located in a lovely building, and there are plenty of witty things like this. The rest of the museum is quite tourist oriented, and it's a bit pricey.

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#4 posted by consideredopinion , December 6, 2008 2:26 PM

Funny, then again, I lived through that. A good counterpoint to that Museum of Communism is the monument to all the Czechs lost to communism and the perilous exodus in that period. It's located on Petrin Hill, in Mala Strana.

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/47274/limit

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#5 posted by J. Lasser

, December 6, 2008 6:13 PM

Commiepunk? Wha?

Redpunk, of course.

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#6 posted by jetfx , December 6, 2008 7:36 PM

I remember reading some Communist magazine (Socialist Worker I think?) about a year ago, which included an article about Soviet kitsch. The article included examples like this, considering them to be a serious obstacle to keeping Marxist thought relevant, especially since a whole generation has grown up without the existence of the Soviet Union, and encounters Communism simply as ironic kitsch.

However the postcards are true, Communism actually is laughably irrelevant.

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#7 posted by FrancescaVeitch , December 7, 2008 11:58 AM

I agree that the museum is worth a miss if you're short on time in Prague. However, I took a walking tour about communism. The old Czech man who led my tour was hilarious and insightful.

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#8 posted by ill lich , December 30, 2008 7:00 PM

#6 JETFX

Communism actually is laughably irrelevant.

Yes. . . but for how long?

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#9 posted by Antinous , December 30, 2008 7:30 PM

Let them laugh, comrade. We will laugh last and longest.

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#10 posted by zuzu

, December 30, 2008 7:39 PM

Basil Exposition: The Cold War's over.
Austin Powers: Ah, finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh, comrades? Eh?
Basil Exposition: Austin, we won.
Austin Powers: Oh, groovy, smashing. Yay capitalism!

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#11 posted by arkizzle , December 30, 2008 8:02 PM

"Fill out these forms in triplicate and wait in line outside, the glory of the Motherland depends on it."

Wait.. that's not England, no?

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#12 posted by zuzu

, December 30, 2008 8:22 PM

Have you got a 27B/6?