Pyramids

Back in the USSR

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August 24th 2006
Well, not really the USSR, but it might as well have been, on the way to our Hostel at least. Our first impressions of Bratislava were marred by, in order of appearance: - A dead body lying outside the train station; - The ugliest building this side of the BNZ centre. The dead body you can leave to your imagination, but the building I refer to is the Slovak Radio Building (see photo). To my ... read more

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In 1918 the Slovaks joined the closely related Czechs to form Czechoslovakia. Following the chaos of World War II, Czechoslovakia became a Communist nation within Soviet-ruled Eastern Europe. Soviet influence collapsed in 1989 and Czechoslovakia once... ... read more