Having
spent as a foreign student 6 years in the USSR, not much in the history of
Communism should come as a surprise to me. Yet I was completely shocked by the
size of this monument to Stalin I had never heard of, the photo of which is displayed in Prague’s Museum of Communism. The actual monument was unveiled in 1955 and destroyed in 1962.
Although Czechoslovakia was under the
Nazis from March 1939 till the end of WWll, and under Soviet domination from
1948 till the Velvet Revolution of 1989, it has been free (as the Czech
Republic since 1993) for the last 30 years! So all this is now history.
All the youth I saw in the Museum of Communism and the Cold War Museum have
been born in freedom. I have become a dinosaur! I remember August 21, 1968, the
day of the invasion!
