Athlone, Ireland
Athlone is a very pleasant town in the geographic centre of Ireland.
September 9, 2005
Random post from the past:
Impressions of the Soviet Union
back in 1980, the Soviet Union was still intact. Who would have imagined that this empire was about to break only a few years after? Here you see a church converted into a museum of the communist revolution. Forever Young... Only two years before his death, Leonid Brezhnev is presented as a young man. ... and even Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (name of war: "Lenin" - a reference to the Siberian river Lena...) looks like a young man. Just to recall: 1980 was the year of the Olympics in Moscow that were boycotted by many Western states. It also was the year that Soviet ...