*The Museum of Communism*

I’m not a communist. I just want to make that clear. I’m sure Bill O’Rielly will already be calling when he finds out that he lost to the wife(ish) and I don’t feel like giving him anything else to yell at me about.

First, for those of you who were oblivious like I was about the history of the Czech Republic, a quick rundown about communism in this fine country:

First the Nazi’s were defeated by allied forces and the Soviet Union took over the Eastern Block.

Then, in 1969 (a turbulent time everywhere, I guess) a student burned himself in protest of communist control which was getting more and more corrupt; this lead to there being a strong underground for succession.

After that, in the eighties...as economic support from the Soviet Union faltered and discontent rose, Vaclav Havel, declared independence from the Russians. This was known as the Velvet Revolution (as it went of fairly smoothly…you know, for a revolution).

So now today, if you go a few blocks south of where Havel made his speech you will find the Museum of Communism…right next to a McDonald's, a Mango's cloathing retailer, and a casino. My, how the times, they do change.

I wouldn’t say that the museum is exactly non-biased…I agree with them, but there were a couple things that I would have put differently had I been writing the descriptions, but hey, they won their revolution…it’s their history. They get to write it.

Besides they had the best post cards I'd seen in Europe:

"Remember back to a time when America was the voice of Freedom."
and
"We didn't have any toilet paper in the factories, but it didn't matter since there was no food either."
and
-two Soviet guards look on- "Don't let us catch you going to any other museums."