Guy Beres » Prague http://guyberes.com On Sunday ring road supermarket. No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:03:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Museum of Communism, Prague http://guyberes.com/2008/07/17/museum-of-communism-prague/ http://guyberes.com/2008/07/17/museum-of-communism-prague/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:15:21 +0000 Guy http://guyberes.com/2008/07/17/museum-of-communism-prague/ One of the delicious ironies of the fairly scathing Museum of Communism in Prague is that it is located above a McDonalds Restaurant, and on the same floor as a casino. To enter the museum you actually have to walk through a door embossed with the casino logo.

It’s hard to say if folks Vladimir Lenin would have appreciated the irony. I don’t suppose when I visit Russia in August I am going to encounter the same kind of irony, in any case.


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Fascinating, and well worth the visit if you happen to be in Prague (it will probably take you around an hour). It’s probably worth noting that the Soviets did at least leave the capital of the Czech Republic with an excellent metro system, as some sort of consolation. I am sure to many (very likely most), that isn’t really any consolation at all.  

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