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Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 04:34 in politics, prague, communism, czechoslovakia, czech people
Milos ForemanMilos Forman has been "at the top of the heap" in not one, but two, countries. One loss for American society is that with the end of Communism, great talents like Forman no longer "need" to come to America because they're unappreciated b...
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Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 02:58 in beer, restaurants, prague, prague restaurants
One of the easiest things to do in the Czech Republic is become a beer snob. It even happened to me - somebody who previously had a beer every couple of years. The New York Times' Evan Rail celebrates the variety of craft beer available throughout Pr...
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Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 05:38 in communism, czechoslovakia, velvet revolution, czech people
Vaclav Havelwaves to the crowd in November 1989CNN has put together a whole group of videos commemorating an "Autumn of Change" when the Berlin Wall fell. I was particularly drawn to this story of the choices individuals were forced into at the time...
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Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 05:04 in communism, czechoslovakia, velvet revolution
The Plastic People of the UniverseToday the New York Times celebrates the rock band that started events in motion that would eventually result in the Velvet Revolution. Busy creating a second culture, because the first culture of communism was so opp...
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Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 12:14 in politics, vaclav klaus, czech culture
Regular readers of my blog know how I have frequently savored tidbits of Czech skepticism so at odds with American pie-in-the-sky optimism.Maybe this skepticism is the reason Vaclav Klaus is so popular with Czechs. He is skeptical of the EU and skep...
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Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 06:56 in politics, global warming, blogging, journalism, expat, esl, czech republic, vaclav klaus, czech culture, czech people
One of the blogs I love to read is Czechmate Diary, by Tanja, a Czech immigrant to the United States. Tanja is in love with all things Czecho and is so proud to be Czech! Her wonderful subtitle to her blog is "Small Bohemian Steps to World Dominatio...
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