Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah ↗

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@unph34 When did you visit? My first and most memorable visit was in Spring 1978, almost ten years after the invasion. Went in and out by train, through Paris, Heidelberg, Nuremberg. Very few westerners went there then. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah I’m sure is that what you say is true, but having visited Prague, I have questions how often they could afford it.

Posted Nov. 19, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@unpg34 Not so. Mrs Hitchens and I were the only foreigners in the Czechoslovak dining cars we used in the late 1970s. The post-1968 regime bought off its middle class with higher living standards in return for political quiescence. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @Brucescribbler For lucky foreigners who could afford it

Posted Nov. 19, 2022

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Quite so .@suejen67. Most of the hororrs of Russia originated in Germany, what with Berlin financing Lenin and the Bolsheviks, and Barbarossa. Individual Russians had (and have) little say in the regime they must live under. — PolitiTweet.org

@ClarkeMicah @unpg34 I was lucky enough to enjoy an intourist late 70s package hol to the USSR which covered Moscow… https://t.co/yV5HwzD7p9

Posted Nov. 19, 2022