After how much we had done the day prior, we only went to the Czech Communism Museum and back to the Old Town Square (and posed mocking strange statues).
As the museum likes to pronounce on their posters, the museum of Communism is above a McDonalds and next to a casino.
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| Really it's more so inside the casino |
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| Propoganda |
Czechoslovakia was under communist rule for forty years from 1949 to 1989. They were not directly under Soviet rule for most of that time, but they were occupied for a little while to quell riots. Here I saw a bit of what makes Czech people unique - according to my tour guide the day prior, the Czech people are known for their dark, sarcastic senses of humor (as you learn about your heritage you learn about yourself I guess). An example of this was a giant statue of Stalin and the proletariat built in the 1950s to brown-nose the USSR. When Stalin's crimes were exposed the statue was torn down and was later replaced with a giant metronome, which was meant to remind all who saw it that all things have their time.
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| Pseudo Propaganda |
We returned to the Old Town Square, and rejoined the festivities.
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| This Mary statue has been there "temporarily" since it was torn down from the Square by angry Protestants over a hundred years ago. |
From there we returned to the hostel - again, it was freezing - and we slept until 7 pm the next day, that's how much we had done and how tired we were.
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