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...full of passionate protestors and revolutionary honesty. But the millions of people who ripped open the Iron Curtain generally did so with an eyebrow cocked at what was replacing their decayed regimes. In the street markets of Warsaw and Prague in those early years of freedom, the symbols of communism - badges, pins, posters - were sold off, their proceeds helping folk survive in the wild and freewheeling free market. But there was also a knowing embrace of the absurdity of it all. A popular Polish cartoon showed a man clutching a Polish flag stepping out of the jaws of a vicious...
That's where the second, symbolic, point comes in. Irony can only get you so far. The greatest light during communism's darkest days was the promise of a united Europe, a continent undivided. Twenty years after the most visible of the divisions was torn down, there's a growing sense that it's back to every man for himself. ? As Europe prepares to commemorate 1989, it's worth ? recalling what the struggle...
...bullshit, the reader’s ribs must be getting a little sore.Even when McGinn does turn to more substantive commentary later in his book, it seems to lack depth and direction. There is not much to learn from his facile remark that “Fascism and Soviet Communism...appealed to latent prejudices, resentments and anxieties to manipulate people’s minds” and thus managed to “approximate the mindfuck.” Likewise, anyone vaguely familiar with “Othello” does not need to be told that Iago...
Twenty years after revolution swept communism from Eastern Europe, the region is in the middle of another maelstrom. The global economic crisis has hit countries like Latvia, Hungary and Poland particularly hard. Eastern Europe's boom over the past few years was fueled in part by heavy borrowing from Western banks and easy access to foreign currency denominated loans. Now, with credit dried up, huge debt loads to pay and Eastern European currencies in free fall, the good times are truly over...
...produced on either side of the Berlin Wall during the postwar division of the country. The "Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures" displays paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and artists' books reflecting Germany's efforts to deal with the aftermath of Nazism and the reconstruction, via capitalism in one Germany, communism in the other. Through April 19. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles...