Museum of Communism
Immersive exhibits of propaganda, reconstructed rooms and daily-life relics from four decades of totalitarian rule.
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This guide tells how an American expatriate, Glenn Spicker, spent about twenty eight thousand dollars buying up relics of Czechoslovak communism after the Iron Curtain fell, then opened a museum on the upper floor of an eighteenth-century Prague palace already shared with a casino, above a McDonald's. You'll meet filmmaker Jan Kaplan, who had fled the country in 1969, and hear how he built the exhibit as a three-act story split between propaganda, everyday hardship and fear.
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