Bolshevik taking over Prague underground for 2 days

Those Prague passengers, who can remember the life behind the Iron Curtain, must feel the Bolshevik has returned. What else can occur in your mind, when riding Prague underground and strict woman’s voice announcing: “Next stop: Leninova (Lenin´s) or Gottwaldova (Gottwald´s ).

Some hearts might even stop beating for a while. It is not a pleasure to return suddenly to those days, when you had to queue even to get a roll of low-quality toilet paper. But to have something positive in this report, Red Terror is back only for 2 days and only on C or red line of Prague underground, until shooting of a new documentary on Ivan Medek is completed. The working title of this documentary is “On bravery, dumpling eaters and lazy orchestra”.

Ivan Medek, Czechoslovak dissident and former speaker of Voice of America, narrated this old-times underground announcement. A lof of people following the foreign broadcast before 1989 can remember Medek´s voice very well, he is especially famous his line: “This is Ivan Medek and you are listening to Voice of America.”

Czech television spokesman Martin Krafl says that the documentary makers want to find out if people can still recognize Medek´s voice. “They ride the underground train with the passengers and shoot their reactions when Medek announcing – Next stop: Muscovite.

Twelve underground stops were renamed on February 22^nd, 1990 and Leninova became Dejvická or Muscovite was changed to Anděl.