On 21 August forty years ago, loads of troops from Warsaw Pact countries moved in to Czechoslovakia for a few days, to crush any ideas of further democratising the regime t/here, which was already one of the more liberal socialist regimes. Of course, the Russians have been celebrating in Georgia, but here in the Little Big City, people are also remembering. There was a guard of honour greeting I. and I off the bridge this morning at Safarikovo Namestie (just what the traffic needs with the current roadworks); they swiftly got onto coaches, with their bumfluff and shiny toy rifles, too young to remember anything interesting about being a soldier in Europe.
The other remembrance activities involve the Mestska Policia (city cops) - all of whom were probably enthusiastic army chaps in their day - pushing gypsies off bikes, and what I can only hope is a T mobile promotion, in typically thoughtless Slovak style. Unless, of course, it is a take on the new value system in the ex-socialist countries, which I will mention whenif I put up pictures from the last visit to Danubiana...
In other news, some of my work:
In other news, some of my work:
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