ice-hockey in bratislava, slovakia, SK

a short visit to bratislava, slovakia, SK during carnival break => time to see my family again 😊

igor liba, one of the best CSSR czechoslovak ice-hockey players in the 1980ies. he

played in my home town kosice (kassa/kaschau), so i've seen him live once a week.

this visit was completely in the sign of ice-hockey, as my youngest brother's son plays in the slovan bratislava club in the youngest children category ... well, i've enjoyed not also the funny training the young kids have, but also to see the photographs of former star players in the hall of fame of slovak ice-hockey ...

the youngest generation of slovak ice-hockey players in training

could you find my nephew? haha, look for #93 oli aka oliver 😄

ice figure skating takes place in the neighbor hall

the few other activities were to walk in a forest at the pilgrims' place marianka close to stupava (city i've seen last time in SK) + the visit in the music + arts cafe scherz ...

entry to a mine from 16th century for some special black + soft + flat stones,

do not ask me how are they called in english or german (#bridlice)

the pilgrims' place marianka

brother + sister

the pilgrims' place marianka

the pilgrims' place marianka, stupava - slovensko

enjoy few pictures from 'real bratislava cafe' scherz aka kafe scherz, SK 🍵🍻

found in the music & arts cafe scherz aka kafe scherz:

old picture of bratislava = preßburg = posonium = pozsony

they don't like putin @kafescherz

kafe scherz, SK

room for smokers @ kafe scherz

my place in scherz

very few more pictures here.

george orwell - animal farm

after george orwell's 1984 and the for me a little bit nicer to read huxley's brave new world, i've managed to read orwell's dystopia animal farm on vacation in croatia. of course, i knew it will not be anything what could improve my mood, but in light of the current more and more absurd and despotic corona-measures i simply was interested what world orwell pictured to us in his famous novel ... will we get some kind of a vaccination, corona or CO2 dictatorship soon? LET'S STOP IT TILL IT IS NOT TOO LATE, dear comrades 😇

• orwell's book refers to stalin's soviet union
• written 1943-1944, first published after the end of the british - soviet 'war friendship' in 1945
  
• while reading it, i felt like in the old CSSR and GDR/DDR, EUdSSR, USSR/UdSSR
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• after the animals at the manor farm took the power from the human owners over, they soon built a politburo (the pigs), police (the dogs), (masterminded) education, ... and soon was the working life for all others (horses, cows, sheep, hens, ...) worse than before 😓
• revolutionary song called "Beasts of England"
• four legs good, two legs bad
• old major, snowball, napoleon, minimus, squealer, boxer, clover, benjamin, .... 
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• lessons learned? Я Ξ √ Ω L U T ↑ ☼ N => new rulers/leaders, but often the same (or worse) circumstances for the people. so sad ...
  
• tomorrow there is a federal election in germany. well, i will try to choose the less evil and entomb (begraben) my voice in a ballot box (urne) for the next 4 years. they call it 'parliamentary democracy'. what about a real democracy, free societies and a world without politics, war and exploitation?
  
• orwell's last interview 'A Call to Remember' ... the future? like a boot in human face forever ... our duty? we must not allow it to happen 😃😃😃

 

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