Here we can see an admission ticket to changing rooms at the 10th All-Sokol Slet (Rally) in Prague in 1938, which I also participated in as a student of the state high school in Michalovce, along with some of my classmates. Back then I carried the standard of the Eastern Slovak Region, which was a big honor for me.
I've got beautiful impressions from the trip for one, and from Prague, for another, where I was for the first time back then. At that time the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Fascist Germany was approaching. We discussed this subject during our entire trip from Michalovce to Prague. Back then I for the first time in my life saw a play with Werich. In the play he made humorous double-entendre references to Germans.
In the evening we walked down from the National Museum along Wenceslaus Square, and we, who up to then had only known candles ?and even? petroleum lamps, suddenly found out that electric lighting also existed. The Czech people themselves also left a deep impression on me. They're capable of great enthusiasm. When we were walking down Wenceslaus Square in the procession, the crowds of people yelled: ?Long live our Slovak brothers!? That was some experience.
Changing room admission ticket for the 10th All-Sokol Slet (Rally)
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