Prague In Your Pocket - Memorial to the Victims of Communism

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Prague In Your Pocket editor, Jacy Meyer on the controversial Memorial to the Victims of Communism.
A group of statues by Olbram Zoubek emerge into totality as they walk, or are at various stages of destruction, depending how you look at it. Why are they controversial? Other artists say they are kitschy, while feminists are angry because all the figures are male and they (quite rightly) claim women were persecuted under the communists regime too. The memorial was damaged by two bomb attacks in late 2003.
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[UDSS]

@kitamelt .... You have no idea what communism is about. You saw red flags, pictures of Marx and Lenin and you were told that is ''Marxism-Leninism''. You hated it because you knew ( like most workers ) that it was a lie! That is why anticommunist propaganda is so strong in former Stalinist states. But communism is not about dictatorship. Ask that to those who wanted genuine socialism in 1968. Many supported Alexander Dubček not because they wanted capitalism. They wanted democratic socialism.

[UDSS]

I don't oppose a memorial for the victims of the Stalinist regime. But it should be called ''Memorial to the victims of the Stalinist regime''. Yet bourgeoisie democrats love to spread the lie that Czechoslovakia was ''communist''. The regime that ruled between 1948 and 1990 was not socialist or communist. Czechoslovakia was never a classless, stateless ( communist ) society.

[UDSS]

I oppose those bourgeoisie democratic memorial who blame the communist ideology for the crimes of the Stalinist regime. Were are the memorials for the victims of current day capitalism? Even 22 years after the fall of ''communism'', eastern Europeans are still poorer then western Europeans.

And what about the communists who oppose the single party dictatorship? Communists who fought against stalinism? This memorial is only there for the anticommunists. Only for those who hate communism!

[dayna57]

I lived in Prague for 6 months and stood right here. It is truly moving.

[vuotopiuscuro]

"q.ite a moving experience .. "

guess that "she" is an american wrong.educated mistress, a lame vespuccian lady ..

i cannot hear anymore the stupid hypo.critical and pseudo.self.confident talkers from "back.to.the.world"

stay away from other lands vespuccians!!

[123jolien]

the te have suffert and being torturet in coutry's being reipt from kgb bolshevick bastards, are still her, living between us, strugling to find place to live and ready to tell. unfortunately the see de javue, new coutrys fall in the bolshevick trap, tehe old have never bean really recovert. The bastards evils are overal and again many just try to profitieren from, dont see the denger..

[HergotH01]

Czechs were allways a crowd with the wiews on the things around them somewhat special. Hardworking, yet jealous, yet honest farmers in mentality, they are, that were taught to be suspicious and close minded to everything new by the last few hundred years experience of rolling armies there and back, regimes and rulers changing over their country (which allways acted with absolutely no respect to what czechs were used to).

It is obvious that there are still many people suspicious to "democracy"

[kitamelt]

I lived under Communism Dictactorship for my first 21 years, I'm 36 now and I can assure you that there's nothing more totalitarian and cruel thatn communism. I'm all that I'm now, all the freedom I got now, all this peace of mind I found them in capitalism . so shut the fuck up. morons.

[fettergraf]

ok, so where is the victims of capitalism memorial?

[Frtusidm]

You are so poor idiot.