At the time machine checkout:

Hello, I would like to take a trip to the past, but let it not be too far.

I can offer a ticket until 1984.

And what awaits me there?

The Czech Republic and Slovakia still existed as one state and a socialist, totalitarian state. One party ruled - the communist party.

Won't it be too drastic?

Don't worry. In the mid-1980s, socialism was already crumbling and losing its strength.

Will it be all about politics?

We won't repeat anything you know from school. Find out how people had fun, what they liked to eat and drink. As always, women wanted to look their best back then, but they couldn't find anything nice in stores, so they sewed and knitted themselves...

And what will I see and hear next?

Karel Gott and Darinka Rolincová will present the hit Bells of Happiness, and in the biograph you will see the Neverending story or the comedy Rozpustý a prúpustý by Jára Cimrman. You will also learn that the McDonalds company has Czech roots or that the metro was being expanded in Prague and our athletes were not allowed to go to the Olympics. And among other things, the first computer from the Apple workshop was introduced!

Wow! So one return ticket please.

Read the lines of the book and go on a virtual pilgrimage to the past, when the poet Jaroslav Seifert received the Nobel Prize for literature and Elton John sang live in Havířov.