Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992
Witch Hunt in Prague
By Jeri Laber
Two and a half years after the Velvet Revolution, throngs of people fill Wenceslas Square day and night, many of them tourists or foreigners who have come to Czechoslovakia to help rebuild the country or just to be where the action is. Much of the city's center is being 'gentrified'; walls glisten with fresh paint. There are still many stores from the Communist era, their signs a study in brown on brown, their names announcing only the products they sell—'Tabák,' 'Drogerie'—but they are now interspersed with stylish shops such as 'The Country Life,' a health-food store, and one selling American T-shirts that say 'Prague: Czech It Out.' Notwithstanding a huge new McDonald's, it is mainly German investment capital that is making such changes possible.
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