Kuba - Stručné dějiny konce – Klvaňa Tomáš (2023)

In a vividly written literary travelogue, the author recounts his experiences from his travels to a magical Caribbean island over the past ten years. Before the readers' eyes, an unforgettable atmosphere of tropical backdrops emerges, providing context to human stories plagued by communist dictatorship. The book offers the author's insights during his often dramatic, sometimes humorous meetings with anti-communist dissidents, activists, independent journalists, and also quite ordinary people who are just trying to survive under harsh conditions. In a journalistic manner, he guides us through remarkable places, from the tobacco valley of Vinales and the metropolis of Pinar del Río in the west to Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo on the opposite side of the island. ***** Against the backdrop of historically marked locations such as the Bay of Pigs or Havana's Plaza de la Revolución, the tragic political events of the last seventy years come to life, which have been the focus of world powers and have influenced our lives in Central Europe as well. Through personal reminiscences, the author contrasts Cuban communism with the years of Czechoslovak normalization in the seventies and eighties and addresses significant figures in world history such as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Ernest...