This is a line I’ve read today. There’s an exhibition about the history of the town that I used to live in (and came to visit because my parents live here). It detailed the history of local industry.

It started off at the beginning of the 20th century with a couple of mentions of landowners, petite bourgeoise and private farmers independently developing rudimentary confectionery and baking industry.

Then came the socialist era, during which all this industry was nationalized and transformed into worker cooperatives. It detailed how the industry prospered during socialism and the factories grew exponentially under the guidance of the communist party, but of course, had to throw in “despite great successes of the socialist system in developing the region significantly, it’s totalitarian tyranny left much in the way of personal freedoms to be desired”.

And last, it mentioned the disaster that was the privatizations of 1991. Right after that line in the title, it highlighted a couple of capitalists who came to own most of the previously-collectivized industry, and fired most of the workers, who then left the region, leaving the town in shambles and the local industry to collapse.

The exhibition then concluded with the line “despite many workers being let go, they, compared to the totalitarian socialist regime, had the freedom to find employment elsewhere”

Man, I gotta stop reading this shit.

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    10 months ago

    I enjoy museums but, jfc, you’ve got to avoid the text. It’s usually all very subtle but the terrible messaging is everywhere.

    I visited one last year and it had a WWII exhibit. There was only one positive mention of Russia, naming it in a list of allies (not the first in the list, either). Every other mention was negative. You can imagine the kind of this statement.

    Then there was a Nazi cabinet with a simple explanation saying this is who the allies were fighting. The items were just presented as curiosities. IIRC there was even a short translation of a sad letter written by a Nazi soldier. 😢

    I won’t tell you what the British Empire room was like.

    These are curated by the woke leftist neomarxist academicsTM we hear so much about.