#Communist_Museum_Prague
Here i am inside the Communist Museum located in Prague (established in 2001) showing the hard life lived in Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain with the failed Soviet Union ideology.
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In 1948 the Czech Government attempted to join the US sponsored Marshall Plan to aid post war rebuilding, the Soviet Union stopped this by installing a communist government for the next 20 years |
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But then in the 1960s with changes of leadership in Prague, this led to a series of softer changes within the communist circles |
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With the Czech economy slowing under the communist rule new reforms took place to kickstart the work conditions & workers income. With these new freedoms the citizens wanted more |
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But with the new reforms the Soviets knew they were losing control so with their Iron Fist sent troops to reestablish control in 1968 |
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Conditions improved even under Soviet Rule and in 1993 Czechoslovakia separated peacefully into two new countries.......Czech Republic & Slovakia |
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The last Soviet Union Troops left in June 1991 |
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Czech Republic ( also Hungary & Poland ) joined NATO in 1999 |
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Since becoming a member of NATO all that painful history is behind this resilient country |
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They say history has a way of repeating itself, i say lets learn from our past so we do not make the same mistakes again. I have done enough traveling around the World & my observations are.....all people want is to the freedoms to live life to the fullest without being suppressed. |