"Prague Tale" from season 4. Oh, Irina... Irina!

07 February 2020 Travel time: with 28 December 2019 on 05 January 2020
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Good afternoon, I must say right away that we are not in Prague for the first time. We love this city, people, atmosphere. However, we are grateful tourists. We always look for the good and do not focus on the negative. But this situation is shocking. My husband and I decided to lay flowers at the monument to Marshal Ivan Konev, who liberated Prague in 1945. Everyone knows that passions are constantly flaring up in the Czech Republic about the fate of this monument, and the likelihood that it will be removed from its usual place is very high. Although, in fairness, it should be noted that there are many opponents among the Czechs. So, we thought up something, but we didn’t immediately figure out how to get there.


We googled and found the address. And then we have an excursion to Vienna ("Prague Tale" from "Season 4"). A wonderful guide Irina with a shaggy mop of hair talks so fascinatingly about the atmospheric capital of Austria, the Habsburg dynasty, Princess Sisi, that during the next stop I go up to her, I compliment the professionalism and ask: "How can we get to the monument to Konev? We want to lay flowers, here's the address. Dear Irina instantly transforms into not at all cute, makes the face of the Stone Guest and says somewhere to the side: But you won't get there , the monument is closed for restoration! I, slightly amazed at such a metamorphosis, specify: So, we can’t even get close, it is surrounded by scaffolding? Irina mints, still not looking into her eyes: Yes! Then I understand that the conversation is over and I retreat , for some reason with a feeling of terrible embarrassment. Here, as if I blurted out something completely indecent and now I am ashamed. I report to my husband. And the husband, well done, replies that we will go anyway once we decided.

Without wearying the readers with the details, I would like to inform you that we found the monument not without the help of local residents, I must say. Flowers were laid. No restoration there and does not smell. And Irina wants to say, the next time you want to mislead people, at least put on a friendly face. Then, if anything... it will be possible to say that you simply did not know something. Well, and most importantly (even if you are Mishchenko or something like that), do not stoop to political revenge, you are a professional. Although, now I'm not sure.

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