June 14, 2005

Letters from Europe: , Personal:

Another photo from Prague...

    By Jack Grant

...but not as beautiful as the cathedral photo.

This one is of the memorial to the victims of the communist regime imposed after World War II (click on any of the images to see a larger photo):


Prague-Memorial-1


Another part of the memorial is this (I did not reduce the image size, and I apologize for the poor quality of the photo, the only way I could take it was from above to avoid a bad shadow, so the proportion is awkward):


Prague-Memorial-3


The dedication was off to the side (again, I did not reduce the image size, it should be read clearly):


Prague-Memorial-2-3


More to come soon, but it is important to note they have memorialized those who not only died, but whose lives were ruined by the regime imposed by the Soviet Union.

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Posted by Jack Grant at 20:42 on 14 June 2005
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