Thursday, July 30, 2009

A young builder of socialism looks different from a decadent swine

This is a poster in a museum in Prague with that caption. What makes the swine so decadent? Not only is he reading but he is wearing a cowboy hat. This apparently comes from the popularity of country and western music among tramps and drifters in pre-communist Czechoslovakia. On a similar subject this is a poster in the same museum for the band Plastic People of the Universe. People who saw the horrible Tom Stoppard play Rock and Roll would be familiar with them.
In the 1970s the government cracked down on the subversive counter culture that grew up around them and they were banned. The movement to defend them led to Charter 77 and the rise of dissidents like Vaclav Havel.

This all raises the question that if the movement against communism was all about being a misfit and a long haired freak then why do all the kids in post communist Czech Republic look like this?

12 comments:

  1. nice picture, the last one is very nice

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  3. Probably not..Ingen Mat.

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  10. That's a relief. I thought you were calling me fat.

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