Ghetto

Bratislava

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November 15th 2006
So we had a few days off and a few of my friends and I decided to cross the old Iron Curtain and see what life was like in Slovakia. We did very little there as we were only in country for a day. We saw some cool things, and some pretty ghetto things, and all in all, Slovakia is a lot more developed than I was expecting (and I wasn't expecting something as bad as Hostel or Eurotrip either) 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