Anti-Collecting Ideologists and Communism

Peter Tompa reveals that the anti-collecting organization UNESCO:

is run by a former Bulgarian Communist (now Socialist) and its pronouncements reflect a state ownership approach that ignores the rights of individuals, ethnic and religious groups.  Not surprisingly, UNESCO supports repatriation of artifacts to Assad in the midst of a civil war despite the Assad regime's poor stewardship and even purposeful destruction of cultural artfiacts.

There is a log, informed and thought provoking comment from England which raises an important point: " That the US State Department awarded a $600,000 contract to ASOR, an organization that takes a dim view of private collecting suggests that perhaps not all the former comrades are working inside UNESCO". This really should be investigated.