Communist states in Eastern Europe were imagined as places drained of all colour, outside of time – but it's increasingly clear they were a lot more colourful than we were led to believe.
  • Pleasure_Hacktivist [doe/deer,hy/hym]
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    4 years ago

    This reminds me of finding out that classical statues were actually painted. It is a weird part of the USA psyche to we have about assuming other places are devoid of color

  • vertexarray [any]
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    4 years ago

    Christoph Neidhart, who lived in the Soviet Union during its final years as a correspondent for the Swiss news magazine Die Weltwoche

    Hey I just learned about this magazine yesterday! They're MEGA racist. Like "Lamenting the spread of the Irish gene pool" racist.

    • garbology [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      The future that leftists want is when being a leftist does not mean learning a disturbingly huge amount about reactionaries out of self-defence.

  • penguin_von_doom [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Eeeh, living in a soulless massive concrete flat, surrounded by similar flats on all sides, in the middle of the winter can get extremely depressing and grey. 80s era concrete pre-fab towers are absolutely soul-crushing

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      George Bodie is working on a PhD about the GDR at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.

      Can PhD programs that study East Europe start looking for candidates who didn't need to start a graduate degree before being convinced that eastern Europeans live complex inner lives?

  • richietozier4 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    everyone knows that when the Bolsheviks took over they used commie magic to suck out all color