Why Communism Sucks
We couldn’t pass up going into a couple of museums in Budapest and Prague about the Communist era, since we were in that neck of the woods. The difference in presentation between the two cities, however, was like a Steve Jobs’ presentation revealing the next generation of iPhone vs. an 8th graders’ science project about a gurgling volcano.
The House of Terror in Budapest was one of the scariest and most somber places I have ever visited, enhanced by thoughtful exhibits that ended in the dungeon of the building, where hundreds of people were tortured and executed:
The Museum of Communism in Prague, on the other hand, was a one-floor exhibit that resembled a series of middle school projects pasted on cardboards. It didn’t help that you could see a very kitschy McDonald’s out one of the windows:
The awkwardly translated information cards only added to the nearly comedic atmosphere of the place. For instance, in the middle of the section about the influx of foreign currency through black markets during the Communist era, one of such cards tells the story of a prostitute sleeping with a foreign client and getting paid in dollars to illustrate the example. I kid you not. Read below:
So, you know. Communism sucks…right?
