Take a time machine to the dark period of 1952! There were only months left until the death of the dictator J.V. Stalin, which heralded at least the dawn of hope for an improvement in the international situation, but no one knew that at the time. The Cold War was in full swing, a real war was raging in Korea, and World War III was a real threat. The inhabitants of the planet Earth knew that the rapid development of weapons of mass destruction could mean the end of our civilization. Yet they lived their lives like so many generations before them and, thankfully, after them. They enjoyed new films, such as the musical Singing in the Rain or the western High Noon with Gary Cooper in the lead role, they admired the young Queen Elizabeth II, who had just ascended the British throne, or Marilyn Monroe, whose photo was on the cover of a magazine for the first time Life, and enjoyed the first "damn good chicken" at the newly opened Kentucky Fried Chicken fast food chain.

In Czechoslovakia, the revolution began to eat its children. In addition to many other innocent victims of the regime, leading communists were also tried and executed - led by the former general secretary of the party Slánský himself. Czechs and Slovaks had to get used to the marasmus of the times, endless queues for various goods, the rationing system, the constant threat of currency reform and the ubiquitous propaganda of the communist regime. The kitschy posters with beaming smiles of pioneers, workers and working women contrasted with everyday experience, and above all with the fates of many thousands of the persecuted. But even this year brings back happy memories of those who experienced it. Even in 1952, marriages took place, children were born, young people experienced their first loves. The cult fairy tale The Proud Princess came to the screens, people sang to each other He can do it and he can do it and watched with bated breath the unrivaled Olympic achievements of Emil Zátopek, who became a world legend just in 1952.