Christopher Columbus died a magnificent failure! Four times he tried to find a route to Asia. When he reached another continent, he insisted that Cuba was a part of China. Colombus set sail in August 1492. His sailors rebelled. ‘Tierra, Tierra’ (land, land) shouts on October 12, ended the rebellion. An island ‘Guanahani’, renamed as […]
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The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) – 1965
The story begins in 1942 in a small town in Slovakia. In the wake of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, a separate Slovak state has been established. Its president fell in line with the Nazi’s race laws. The key regulation is the policy of “Aryanization”, kicking Jewish business owners out and transferring their property into […]
