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Hip Czech

By Shaun Assael
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, October 4, 2000

A brief history lesson: On Aug. 21, 1968, tanks rumbled into Prague, the capital of what was then Czechoslovakia, to crush what had become a rocking little party. The city was part of the far-flung Soviet Empire, and also part of a grand experiment. The Communists had decided to lighten up-you know, let a few flowers bloom, let a couple of writers speak their minds, that kind of thing. Except that it all got too groovy. A nervous Kremlin sent in tanks, and for the next 21 years, everyone moped. ...

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