Creating A Totalitarian Simulator Analysis
As one might expect from activist groups, their focus is on civic engagement, demanding not the mere consumption of history, but citizens taking active roles to determine how and what is remembered. Undoubtedly, the need to break with civic passivity "inspired by communism" emphasizes both the discursive transfer of knowledge and the opportunities for incarnated experiences of "normal" life during communism. The latter involves commemorative performances, such as queuing to buy bananas in socialist-style fruit stands, which re-invoke how time was "captured" by the socialist state and the resulting struggles to acquire basic consumer goods (Verdery, 1996) . In a similar vein, Opona plans to create a Totalitarian Simulator, a "large-scale interactive