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In 1996 after more than 30 years on emigration came back to Poland the popular playwriter Sławomir Mrożek.
The return was quite ane event for his fans and so the author has been asked what kind of gift he would like to receive.
He joked that the most pleasant to his eyes would be the view of hundred of dachshunds welcoming him back to Krakow.
The word was spread, and suprised writer saw on the market square a parade of not a hundred but almost a thousand of wiener dogs walked by his fans. The owners of the dogs make friends to each other and promised to meet once again on
promenade walk. And that was the beginning. This year fourtheen Marsz Jamników ( Parade of Dachshunds ) took place in Kraków at the beginning of September, this year sponsored by Radio Kraków with several competitions: for the best dachshund's dress, the best dogs portrait, and the best dog's short story.

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The Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began when Czech leader Alexander Dubček introduced in April 1968 radical reforms, stopped by invasion of Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies 200,000 troops and 2,000 tanks in August 21.

[the foto shows soviet tank on street of Liberec August 21, 1968.]

The invasion raised enormous wave of protests both in Western and 'behind the iron curtain' (soviet occupied) countries.
The most dramatic form of protesting was chosen by Ryszard Siwiec, who burnt himself in presence of 100 000 people during harvest festival in Warsaw.

On the Mały Rynek near St. Mary's church in Kraków this month you can see the exchibition of photographs from 68 and decade anniversaries in Poland and Czechoslovakia.

We remember.

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