The People’s Republik will not reopen ("Soviet-inspired decorations" bar in Cambridge, MA)

Boston Globe ^ | February 7, 2021 | Lucas Phillips

[ConservativeStatement]

When the bar opened in 1997, its moniker — which riffed on a nickname applied to Cambridge because of its famously liberal politics — was controversial enough to be blocked by the city’s license board, Blair remembered.

Although it initially opened with no name, the establishment quickly collected many Soviet-inspired decorations and a loyal following. (The name was eventually approved after the city’s rejection was widely reported, Blair said.)

[ConservativeStatement]

The irony is excessive.

[Magnatron]

I guess the state provided free drink model didn’t work that well. They must have run out of other people’s money...

[Leep]

They made it over 20 years without government assistance?

[SharpRightTurn]

The People’s Republik—Cambridge.

Nuff said.

[escapefromboston]

Too bad, I liked that bar back when I worked in Cambridge.

[Saltmeat]

Yeah, but in the end it was the government’s ability to exert power over the people that shut the bar down. Karma can be so cruel.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’ve heard that they served Victory Gin that had an unpleasant, oily taste.

[cuban leaf]

There was a VERY popular deli in my office building in downtown Louisville. She was a liberal whackjob and I even had to tell her once that the overt Trump hating almost caused me to stop doing business with them, but I believe in accepting that we don’t all have the same opinions.

Then they told us we would work from home beginning April 1st. I actually ordered there the last day they were open. She was whining that it’s all Trump’s fault and she was going to temporarily close. My take was that she was probably out of business for good.

She was. And it wasn’t trump that did it to her. After a few months of the lockdown nonsense, my tag line was formed. Though I didn’t put it up until after the election

[elcid1970]

Is it possible that the People’s Republik bar was intended as a parody of communism, like the People’s Cube website?

Now THAT would anger the dons of Cambridge.

[hanamizu]

I still find it hard to grasp that Soviet Communism and its symbols are considered acceptable (and even suitable to decorate homes of government officials) while the symbols of the equally vile Nazis are rightly condemned. Imagine the reaction to a bar called “The Third Reich”