Prague part two

We had a great second day in Prague. We slept in listening to the pouring rain, we went to breakfast and then to mass at one of the few english masses in the city. We are blessed to have the Bascilica in St Louis.....but they have 400 of them in the city of Prague. The churches here are crazy big and beautiful. If we melted all the gold found in these churches we could pay off the US national debt. After mass we took a walking tour....and just as it started, the sun came out. Our tour guide brought us throughout the different neibhorhoods; old town, new town, castle quarter, the jewsih quarter and little town. She was a good ending to the history lesson we took at the Communist Museum that we visited the day before.

Here is the most interesting thing I found. She was 13 when the Velvet Revolution occurred. She was actually in Wensceles Square when the revolt occurred. ( in the simplest terms, the velvet revotion was when czech's peacefully won their freedom from communism in 1989.). The czech people hated what their country had become under communism. The promise of the utopia.....as always....never occurred. After 40 years they were tired and sick of the government running their lives.

Here comes the interesting part...

I asked her if there were many in the coutry that would want communism back...her reply....yes. 13 % voted for a communist party in the last election. She said there were three types that voted for them...the young people...who thought that the impossible utopia could be achieved and were too young to remember what it was like, the stupid people ( her words not mine) that did not know any better and the lazy....people who did not want to work and wanted the gvt to provide for them....

Interesting