ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 investigates the attempts made to normalize Roma and other post-socialist pathways for objectifying Roma through pathologizing their socialist past. This approach is analyzed as the successor of a long-term tradition of exploiting the analogy between Roma and disabled people in Central Europe in favor of segregation. We explore the power of this approach by interpreting Marian (Petr Václav, 1996), a positively received film about a Roma boy whose placement into residential care settings gives him an escape from institutional violence, along with several studies aimed at abusing the memories of Roma in favor of blaming the socialist regime.
