Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

 The Cold War Museum Crisis fallout shelter

I arrived in Prague from a visit to Police Kolín and had 4 hours until the next event. I go out of necessity to the toilet of the JALTA hotel on Wenceslas Square, in the lobby there is a model SNB officer standing as if cut out from the totalitarian era. I asked him: "Where on earth did you come from?"He was a guide to the civil defence bunker from the time of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. I recommend to see the PHOTOGALLERY.

There were nine of us - four Romanian women, three Romanians, supplemented by the guide and me. The interpretation in English lasted 75 min. Great, full of details, with the guide answering knowledgeably every question of the visitors. It was also quite action-packed, where we could climb through the emergency exit, or operate the hand-powered air pump. Tours for Czechs don't happen very often, but they should. Occasionally schools come along, where the tour programme is appropriately tailored to the age of the schoolchildren. It's similar to the Museum of Communism near Republic Square - especially for foreign tourists, where most of the public doesn't know about it. With media promotion, there would certainly be a lot of interest. By the way, the guide is Ukrainian, speaks perfect English and now is improving his Czech. When will the public see the Museum of Totalitarianism in Uherské Hradiště, in the former prison where political prisoners were tortured and died in the 1950s? Below is a recent article on the current system of population protection. It was published on the same day I visited the bunker under Yalta? There are no coincidences. JŠ