TrotSki:
the communist ski goggle museum

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about.
We are operating under the assumption that we are the world's only museum dedicated to communist-era Eastern European ski goggles. Prove us wrong. We're not communist. We have no truck with any form of nation-state. We will eventually rid ourselves of all forms of nation-states like we did feudalism. Only the ski goggles will survive...preferably the communist variety.
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treaty 6 acknowledgment
tân'si from TrotSki!
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TrotSki acknowledges that our communist ski goggles museum lies on Treaty 6 territory encompassing the traditional lands of the Cree, Dakota, Nakota, Saulteaux and the homeland of the Métis. Unlike the asshats and dorks offering similar vapid acknowledgments whilst clinging stubbornly to their comfortable homes, cabins and university campuses, TrotSki is willing to put our East German Marks where our mouths are and return our less than marginal museum lands to First Nations peoples.
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Armed with deeds of transfer, surrenders, conveyances, bequeathals and statutory declarations, TrotSki staff welcomed a gathering of Elders to the museum to celebrate the return of lands to Indigenous peoples. The Elders confusedly toured the museum and halfheartedly perused the selection of Eastern European communist era ski goggles, Bulgarian skis, Yugoslavian ski posters, Soviet toques and East German ski pins. If the museum's shoddy collections did not elicit sufficient shame, TrotSki's pinheaded Curator proceeded to accidentally set himself and two onlookers on fire while trying to smudge with sweetgrass.
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After repeated queries directed to TrotSki's Curator from the Elders as to why anybody would collect Soviet ski wax, the Elders briefly met and then issued the following unanimous proclamation with what seemed like rather hurried dispatch:
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"White Man can keep this dump.
We, the Treaty 6 Nations, reject TrotSki."
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Karl Marx
Prussian Ski Resort circa 1868
TrotSki's Red Wave Across Western Canada Tour
Over the 2023-2024 ski season, TrotSki's Friendship Tour journeyed from Fichtelberg Mountain in East Germany to storm across three Western Canadian Provinces. TrotSkiists experienced compromised vision, incessant fogging, persistent skin irritation, minor ocular damage and sustained mockery as they hit the slopes in communist ski goggles. The tour was a resounding... Well, anyway, it happened.
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"Veni, Vidi, I Cecidi Skidi" proclaimed TrotSki Curator, Hans: I came. I saw. I fell off a chairlift!
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"Let's be bold!" yelled Comrade Ulle inspired by Hans' death-defying chairlift manoeuvering. "Hell Yeah!" cheered a Brother Liftie in support of the TrotSkiists. It was a lot to take in. Hans was last seen staggering around the Orient lift at Sun Peaks muttering a lesser known quote from Karl Marx's moguls manifesto The Critique of the Goggles Programme: "The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope tow."
Many thanks to all the TrotSkiists who participated in this year's tour, including Comrades Benjamin, Alec, Jake, Patty, Mic, Clayton, Rhodri, Digby, McMurd, Woodsy, Daragh and Niall. No thanks to our inept Chief Curator who abandoned the tour ranting about a capitalist plot against his knee and demanding that the Stasi imprison an Okanagan Ponderosa Pine to which he took an extreme disliking.
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dinner at the goggles museum!

Dieter Neuendorf,
Mediocre East German Ski Jumper
Mogulena Bombernek,
Czechoslovakian Mogul Star & Hot Dog Enthusiast

Electrified by an inrush of museum visitors (well, five...and four of whom were involuntary), Curator Mogulena has organized the first Dinner at the Goggles Museum to be held on May Day +1. Attendance is open to all goggles comrades (or Coggles)... with the exception of our Chief Curator who, in addition to having a wooden head, remains banned from the premises indefinitely after defecting and joining forces with that copiously-coiffed-capitalist Stein Eriksen and his lame western goggles empire. Special thanks to Renowned Communist-Ski-Themed Chef Kallie who has created our first Goggles Menu:
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Blue Run Borscht: a light and easy starter
Lenin's Lentil Salad with Alpine Micro Greens: a freestyle melange
Gulag Goulash with Mogul Mashed Potatoes: sculpted by world renowned potato artist Patrick
Nikita's Noodles with Off-Pistou Sauce: comes with optional T-Bar Tofu
Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal Blinis: topped with Engels' famous coleslaw!
Gorbachev's Garbanzo Surprise with Tear Down this Wall Sourdough
Talk to the Trees Broccoli: an old family favourite
Stalin's Sherbet: Purge your palette and your existence from all known records
Pinko Fantasy Supreme: Red Velvet cake covered in thick powder and coconut snowballs
Cocktail: Siberian Snowplow
Mocktail: The Bunny Hill
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goggles guestbook
After years of rigorous scholarly study at the TrotSki Academy of Goggles Museum Curatorship, seminars in East German Goggle Riveting, immersion in Czechoslovakian mogul theory, a brutal exam schedule and curator tryouts marked by fierce hand-to-hand combat, a courageous victor has finally emerged from a pool of thousands nay a meagre handful of candidates to secure the coveted position of TrotSki Museum Guestbook Curator. We are most pleased to welcome Comrade Curator Mogulena to our midst whose multifaceted powers include the ability to unwittingly precipitate tears amongst ice highway truckers. We have banished our ever wooden-headed Chief Curator to behaviour reconditioning camp in Eastern Kamchatka after immediately bothering Mogulena with his intemperate theories. With the Chief Curator banished from the premises, Mogulena has completed the museum's first Guestbook shown below. Museum Guests are invited to inscribe the Guestbook...or not should they suddenly be overcome with feelings of shame for having attended the Museum.

from the TrotSki archives:
TrotSki's Curator in Warsaw, Poland
circa 1974

ice bloc.


TESTIMONIALS
"I've been to better goggles museums"
- Richard Baxter
"I've been to worse goggles museums"
- David Dupuis