James Grieves

James Grieves

Wednesday 27 August 2008

Remember 1968

That year has been endlessly referenced across the entirety of the media. But the events which preceded the Summer of Love were the Spring of Prague. It seems to me that the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia bears far more historical assonances with this year, forty years on, than the revolutionary joy that the Anglosphere enjoyed a few months later.

Which is unfortunate on more levels than I can bear express.

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