Slavín
Hilltop Soviet war memorial and cemetery with a soldier-topped obelisk and sweeping city views.
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This guide to Slavín in Bratislava leaves the bronze soldier and the graves of the Red Army dead for the quiet villa streets just downhill, where Alexander Dubček, the leader of the nineteen sixty-eight Prague Spring, lived after his fall from power. It follows his family, the secret police parked at his door, and an Italian friend with a long way to travel. Best heard on the terrace, looking down over the rooftops.
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