Friends,
I just returned from a trip to Prague and Slovakia. It was a nice trip. I got to see the Presov GC Cathedral, and it was pretty. I also saw the Orthodox Church of Saint Alexander Nevsky, and it was being gutted and totally restored on the inside.
While I was in Prague I picked up a copy of the national geographic magazine Czech Republic Edition and found an article on Carpatho-Rus. I am not fluent even in Slovak so it was hard to read the article but basically it talked about how Uzhorod was built up in the 1930's by Czech investment and how the people there still identify largely with Czechoslovakia. One family still flies a Czechoslovak flag in their house. Another person quoted in a sidebar lamented that their land was added to Ukraine by Stalin, saying that they didn't have much in common with Ukraine and wished they had not been forced into joining the USSR.
I will be scanning in the article later today and making it available for 24-48 hours via a link in a subsequent post in this thread. I normally woudln't do that as it is probably a copyright violation, but since it is very hard for people outside Europe to procure this magazine I think we should have a chance to at least see it. The article is of course all in Czech.
In the meanwhile, here is the extra photogallery available publicly:
Photogallery of Carpatho-Rus [
national-geographic.cz]
anastasios
