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Monday’s Monument: Památník Sametové Revoluce, Prague, Czech Republic

Monday’s Monument: Památník Sametové Revoluce, Prague, Czech Republic

by Susan | Dec 6, 2021 | Monuments

This small bronze plaque, the Velvet Revolution Monument, marks the spot where hundreds of nonviolently protesting college students were brutally beaten by riot police on the night of November 17, 1989, the 50th anniversary of when the Nazis stormed Prague in 1939 and...
Monday’s Monument: Memorial to the Children Victims of the War, Lidice, Czech Republic

Monday’s Monument: Memorial to the Children Victims of the War, Lidice, Czech Republic

by Susan | May 25, 2020 | Monuments

In retaliation for the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi official, every adult male from the village of Lidice (22 km NW of Prague) was rounded up and shot. The women and children were sent to separate concentration camps. The village itself was completely razed....
Monday’s Monument: John Lennon Peace Wall, Prague, Czech Republic

Monday’s Monument: John Lennon Peace Wall, Prague, Czech Republic

by Susan | Oct 17, 2016 | Monuments

When John Lennon was murdered in 1980 he became a hero to many youth in what was then communist-ruled Czechoslovakia and his picture was painted on a wall in Mala Strana, near the French Embassy, along with graffiti defying the authorities. By doing this, those young...
Monday’s Monument: Mohyla ­ru, Prace Village, Czech Republic

Monday’s Monument: Mohyla ­ru, Prace Village, Czech Republic

by Susan | Jul 18, 2016 | Monuments

The Cairn of Peace was built to honor the victims of Napoleon’s victorious battle over the Austrians and Russians near Austerlitz, fought on December 2, 1805. It was the initiative of a priest, A. Slovák, to create a pious “place of light” from the center...

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