I spent some time in the Czech Republic not long after the Wall fell. One day I was sitting in a small park with a statue at its center. The statue showed a Soviet soldier protecting a woman—presumably Czech—from a Nazi. This in graphic form was the story the occupying Soviets had told the Czechs for many years. The older folks of the village performed a ritual when they walked through that park: each walked up to the statue, spat... Read more