Chapter
Life Under Totalitarianism
22:03 - 28:27 (06:23)
In this conversation, the speaker reflects on the horrors of living under an oppressive regime that strips people of their basic human rights and leaves them in constant terror. The speaker also highlights the disconnect between the idiosyncratic captions on exhibits in communist museums and the scholarly tone of exhibits in Western museums.
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The speaker recounts experiencing constant terror in a country where human life has no value, and recalls visiting a museum of communism where the exhibits showed a distorted reality, causing starvation.
22:03 - 28:27 (06:23)
Communism
Summary
The speaker recounts experiencing constant terror in a country where human life has no value, and recalls visiting a museum of communism where the exhibits showed a distorted reality, causing starvation. The Congress people she spoke with didn't believe her experience, unable to comprehend the differences in living standards around the world.