tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post5020603656311260817..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Sixty years agoHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-11485784153815055082019-01-05T22:20:01.497+00:002019-01-05T22:20:01.497+00:00what bollockswhat bollocksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-7651918070383159702016-10-26T12:37:29.517+01:002016-10-26T12:37:29.517+01:00Thanks for the reminder. It's always worth rem...Thanks for the reminder. It's always worth remembering that at one time we had real problems in Europe, rather than the kind of marginal disputes that exist today.<br /><br />My own memory doesn't go back that far (I was four) but I certainly remember the equivalent event in Czechoslovakia a few years later. We were on holiday in Switzerland, and the power and menace of the East never felt so real as at that moment. "Russian tanks in Prague", a phrase whispered around the campsite then, still brings a chill. <br /><br />Thanks Heavens it's all over.Weekend Yachtsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262853091154005651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-87959302530255964752016-10-25T21:23:04.039+01:002016-10-25T21:23:04.039+01:00I was 8 years old at the time of the Hungarian Rev...I was 8 years old at the time of the Hungarian Revolution. It is the first political event I remember. I remember it because I saw my mother sobbing as she looked at photographs of young Hungarian rebels being rounded up by the Soviet invaders (in Life magazine, I think). We were far away (in Galway, Ireland) but somehow it has always seemed to me as though the tragedy had happened next door. Good luck Helen, and keep up the good fight.<br />Charles Copeland, LuxembourgCathalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12425371166432727120noreply@blogger.com