Posted on 06/27/2012 6:05:37 PM PDT by ak267
The year was 1968 and my earliest memory was that of my mother picking me up. She was scared...terrified. I didn't know why mom was so scared but when you're a small child, parents screaming and shouting leaves an indelible mark on you.
"They are coming for us...we must leave."
My parents were part of the reform movement in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's. Dad was a respected doctor, mom was a nurse. After suffering the tyranny of the Nazis, seeing a once proud and industrial country turned into a Communist hell hole, my parents decided to stand up for increased freedoms and an open country.
My ancestral people protested and revolted. They marched, and they staged strikes. They where the "Solidarity movement" of it's time....before it was "acceptable" for the world to get involved....before the time when a Pope, a Prime Minister and a President changed the world.
We were alone...the world watched and we were punished.
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Wow, you were there during the Prague Spring. You witnessed history. Google the story of Jan Palach.
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