Word: ljubljana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greece--perhaps worse. Not so the North which appears to be at about the same economic level as most of Austria. Buildings are in good repair, people are reasonably well dressed, and cities are quite crowded with automobiles. Strangely enough, the only poverty I noticed was in one of Ljubljana's best visited tourist attractions, the large castle on a bluff in the middle of town from which the city was defended against Turkish invasions from the 13th to the 17th century...
...graces every major town in Yugoslavia with vast 'You are there' exhibits of political cartoons, marionettes used in cabarets, tanks, rifles, grenades, and other memorabilia celebrating the victory of Tito's Partisans over the Nazis in 1945. Neither tourists nor citizens seem to visit these and the one in Ljubljana was no exception in this respect. Within the long marbled corridors and the impressive exhibit rooms were two people besides myself--the director and his secretary...