Czechoslovakia.

Soviet Missiles

I travelled around the Czech Republic with my friends Pavel and Radek. I really like everything about this part of Central Europe, the folk art, the Slavic fairytales, the architecture is awesome. We saw a punk getting arrested by the police in Prague, I asked my friends why and they said probably just for the fact that she was dressed in leather and ripped stockings.

They took me out into the countryside of Bohemia, gentle hills and old castles, we stopped off at the Soviet airbase and snapped a photo of these missiles pointing west.

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Prague, Czechoslovakia

Prague was my first visit into Eastern Europe not long after the Iron Curtain had fallen across the continent. At that time the airport still had welcome signs written in Russian. I remember being on Wenceslas Square watching a Punk girl being dragged into the back of a police car, I asked my Czech friends what was going on and they said she was being arrested for the reason of being dressed as a punk and nothing else.