What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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I could talk about myself for ages, or I could point out that https://english.radio.cz/ed-ley-englishman-recording-stories-pragues-streets-one-one-8806941 is over two years old but still largely stands (other than the Twitter links).
Category: Anti-communist
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Československého exilu was built in 1979. Unsurprisingly, the street was not called that in the still-a-decade-of-Communism-to-go days of 1979. Instead, it was called what is basically the exact opposite of condemning the harsher sides of communism: it was named Pětiletky, a ‘pětiletka’ being a five-year plan. There was a bit of a time lag between…
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Originally published on X on 3 December 2023. I think the best way to start this one is to take a look at two of the plaques on the ground. Between 1948 and 1989, 205,486 people were convicted. 248 were executed, and a further 4,500 died in prison. 327 people died trying to cross Czechoslovakia’s…
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Originally published on Twitter on 28 August 2022. Siwiecova was built in 1980. Until 2009, this was Havelkova, Václav Havelka (1893-1967, and yes, that was his actual name), was a Communist functionary, so it’s quite amazing the street maintained this name for so long. Not least given that the street is the home of the…
What's in a Prague street name 