DBWI: Sightseeing - 45 years after WW3 airraids

I'm going to have a trip to Prague and was recommended to have a visit to the National Museum. That guy told me that even the strongest men would fall to pieces when seeing the panoramas of Old Prague - meaning the Prague before the airraids of January 1963. When he talks about cities he becomes extremely nostalgic and always blames the Cuba Crisis for all evil.

What do you say?
 
Yeah, its Cuba's faulty alright. If that first missile hadn't killed Kennedy in Washington, the whole thing might not have gone out of control like it did. If you want sightseeing, come to DC. The melted stump of the Washington Monument is absolutely overwhelming.:(
 
The new cities of Europe are quite something; its great that they had the sense to start from fresh and build something new and spectacular, not just try to make stale imitations of the past. Amsterdam is another case in point. I still miss the old London though.

I wish the US had tried to do the same. OK, so we only lost Miami, Washington, Baltimore, New York, Chicago and Detroit plus San Francisco on the West Coast when that Russian sub put a nuclear torpedo into the harbor. It could have been a lot worse if NORAD's fighters hadn't put up such a good show. So what did we do? Try to put up imitations of the city as if nothing had happened. That replacement Statue of Liberty just looks cheap and phony to me.

Incidently, when are you going? I understand the winter in Europe is pretty much over by May.

I haven't been there myself but I understand visiting the rim countries around what used to be the USSR is chilling. Refugee mothers there still frighten their children with stories of the great fire-breathing monster called SAC that burned their country to the ground.
 
Meh, the fascination with Europe always boggels me. Why go there, when India is such a vibrant mix of past AND present? Or even South America, where two of the world's six mega-metropolises lay? Europe's just gotten back on its feet, it feels, but India and SA were mostly untouched by the war, unlike Russia and China.
 
Hey, you should check out Ol' Mexico dudes. We just got back from Disney's City Under the Sea off Cancun and it was AMAZING!!! I espcially loved the scuba sportfishing and the MantaRay® subride. They even starting accepting American dollars again. WIN!
 
Funny that Canada became neutral after the crises went hot. Still Lake Montana is a pain to cross when it's frozen... really screwed up everyone's plans. Too bad that stray nuke for the USA hit Toronto....
 
Well I prefer the Manila Film Festival, which has been the premiere entertainment event since 1972. If you ever wanted to brush up with celebrities like Roger Corman, Jennifer Lopez-Affleck, Chris O'Donnell, and Arnold Schwartzeneggar, you have to come to Manila this year. Apparently director Oliver Stone is debuting his film Age of Aqauarius which covers the 1962 Cuban War, the 1968 assassination of President Robert McNamara in Miami, Florida, to the Earth Day Riots of 1971. One thing that is causing controversy amongst film viewers is the fact that in one uncut version (SPOILER ALERT!!!) it is implied that General Curtis Le May and Admiral Robert Heinlein ignored the orders of President Kennedy in the hours before the nuclear war occurred. In any event, my money is on Star Wars: Heir to the Empire, which is the 10th installment of the franchise. Apparently it is the first "R" rated chapter of the series....
 
The view of the setting sun over the Prague Glass Plains is just so devastatingly magnificant. I always make a stop whenever visiting Magyaria. And if you asked me, they never should have attempted to rebuild the city. The new town is just so...plain.
 
Incidently, when are you going? I understand the winter in Europe is pretty much over by May.

Three months sooner. The nightmares of nuclear winters fortunately ceased to exist by the early 70's. The winters of 77/78 and 05/06 were extraordinary extremes. I'm actually from Germany, currently in Nuremberg. I'll go there in mid-March. Sightseeing and shopping. Prague became quite expensive in the last four decades, but you there you get things you can hardly get elsewhere. At least my friend said.

I heard rumours that Charles' Bridge was built lean after the war, though pseudo-historic façade was redone, and that Hradcany became a big nightclub. If Masaryk knew that blasphemy...
 
I lived through the WW3 mostly unscathed due to the remote "no body cares the city... pretty much the entire state I live in" area. I'm going to Washington D.C. to see the construction of the new Congress building. Heard its going to be smaller then the old one since the US isn't all that rich anymore and they need to spend more money reconstructing the infastructure.
 
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