People still call us Nazis lol
A remnant of the Nazi dictatorship for Roma people is Himmler’s legacy of segregation, ostracism, and pervasive contemptuous disregard. The majority of us live sequestered away on designated compounds around Europe and modern Kalderash Roma culture is an entire reconstitution of remnants preserved by fallible human beings– courageous and defiant–yet they’re susceptible to distortions of memory.
Our stories could be apocryphal conjuring of our Elders to assuage the elegiac loneliness of a people with no discernible beginning beyond the depredations of the Nazis.
A remnant of dictatorship is how you’re defined by what it deprived you of.
The fact that whatever culture we currently consider “our own” is actually leftovers from what an external political power did to the country. (Chile)
What I mean is that there’s a common feeling/belief that at some point in the past we were collectively creating a culture and that that process was absolutely cancelled as soon as the dictatorship started operating, and now there is no coming back. Because of that, there’s the impression that we have zero power in what we identify with; everything that our country represents and considers “patriotic” or whatever, is actually an influence of that third party who took over.
Although, I must say that this applies to the whole southamerican continent and not precisely from dictatorship times but actually colonialism.
the feeling of always being in survival mode and the fear of not having enough to eat.
In far east Europe, government is corrupt, young people leave the country and old people brag about how it was better under the soviet union