Those must have been very interesting times for fandom with all the post-soviet visitors.
Prague is the only former eastern bloc location I've been to and it was quite an experience. The food and architecture were the most fantastic I found in Europe. It was cleaned up a lot of course, with almost 20 years since the iron curtain time. I visited the museum of communism and met people dealing in vintage soviet era goods, saw a few scams go down with travelers unused to the money exchange and maze-like old city center, and met people who were more interested in meeting americans than anywhere else I went in Europe. My favorite coffee mug came from there, it has The Little Mole on it.
Fantastic!!
Those must have been very interesting times for fandom with all the post-soviet visitors.
Prague is the only former eastern bloc location I've been to and it was quite an experience. The food and architecture were the most fantastic I found in Europe. It was cleaned up a lot of course, with almost 20 years since the iron curtain time. I visited the museum of communism and met people dealing in vintage soviet era goods, saw a few scams go down with travelers unused to the money exchange and maze-like old city center, and met people who were more interested in meeting americans than anywhere else I went in Europe. My favorite coffee mug came from there, it has The Little Mole on it.