Tour Guide
Filip H.
Date
January 10, 2025
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Tour Overview
Once a cosmopolitan, thriving and modern country, Czechoslovakia found itself on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain for 41 years. Explore what life was like for the Czechs, how our spirit faltered but never broke, how we survived and how we regained our freedom.
Sites visited
- John Lennon Wall
- Václav Havel Piazzetta
- Národní Třída
- Wenceslas Square
- Former Communist Party HQ
- Current Communist Party HQ
- Czech National Bank
- Jan Palach Memorial
Topics covered
- Post-war context and contemporary sentiment
- Communist Coup of 1948
- Political trials of the 50’s
- Prague Spring reform
- 1968 Invasion by the Warsaw Pact
- The Normalisation
- Charter 77 and the Dissident Movement
- Culture and daily life
- Václav Havel
- The Velvet Revolution