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The Plastic People of the Universe: How the violent suppression of a rock band led to revolution in Czechoslovakia Mark Beaumont © Provided by The Independent With just 24 hours’ notice, word would circulate – the name of a train station in Prague whispered around bars and colleges. The following day, the children of the “second culture” would arrive at the station to find a secretive contact with details of which remote village they should buy a ticket to. On arrival, another contact would give them the name of a barn or farmhouse out in the wilds of Bohemia. Then they would trek for hours through woodland and across farms, in thick snow or summer heat, hunting down the music.

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