![]() ![]() The first recorded printed use of the term in English was in Spectator in an article on August 26, 1989, about Czechoslovakia ( Czechoslovakians have taken to calling their country "Absurdistan" because everyday life there has long resembled the " Theatre of the Absurd".) On September 18, 1989, an article in The Nation was called Prague Summer of '89: Journey to Absurdistan. This seems to indicate that use of the term began during perestroika. Later, in Czech, the term Absurdistán was used by dissident and later president Václav Havel. ![]() erkennen wir, dass wir uns hier in Absurdistan bewegen". The first known printed use of the word "Absurdistan" appeared in 1971 in the German monthly Politische Studien ". The expression was originally used by Eastern bloc dissidents to refer to parts (or all) of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, but has remained common in post-communist discourse as well. ![]() For other uses, see Absurdistan (disambiguation).Ībsurdistan is a term sometimes used to satirically describe a country in which absurdity is the norm due to the ubiquity and incompetence of its bureaucracy. ![]()
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