Take a day, and walk around. Watch the Nazis run your town. Then go home and check yourself. You think we’re singing about someone else. — Frank Zappa, “Plastic People” Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet...
I’m thinking of a city, the glittering capital of a German-speaking people. It was the seat of monarchs and dictators before being bombed into submission during World War II. It was divided into four...