I spent most of the afternoon relaxing in Letna park today. The park is high atop a hillside overlooking the Vlatva river. Letna has spectacular views of Prague, but is best known for the giant Stalin monument that was here. The monument was the largest Stalin statue in the world, and lasted only a year. It was blown up during Destalinization, and was left an empty pedestal until the 90s, when an artist installed a giant metronome. It now seems to be a skate park, more than anything else.
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Here's a good gypsy joke. A large group of peasants were waiting in line for toilet paper just after the crushing of the Prague Spring. A gypsy man walks up, and begins shoving his way roughly through the crowd, jostling and elbowing with abandon, showing no mercy to even women and children. A man near the front of the line grabs the gypsy, and asks, incredulously,
"Are you very important, sir? How is it that you cut to the front of the line without being taken away by the StB?"
To which the gypsy disdainfully replies,
"Haven't you heard, oaf? The needs of the Romani outweigh the needs of the queue!"
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