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PREFACE................................................................................... 4
1. After the Second World War – The 1940s ............................. 9
2. Dictatorship of the Proletariat – The 1950s .......................... 16
3.1956 ....................................................................................... 23
4. The World Turns Its Back – The 1960s ............................... 34
5. The Fake Goulash Communism - The 1970s ....................... 50
6. Worldview short stories ........................................................ 59
THE FRENCH CONSUL ......................................................... 59
DIPLOMACY .......................................................................... 64
THE PROTOCOL .................................................................... 68
7. The years of the 70s and 80s ................................................ 72
8. The responsibility is mine .................................................... 80
9. Deprived illusions ................................................................. 83
10. The change of regimes - The 1990s-2000s ......................... 98
11. Where are the Slovaks wrong? ......................................... 108
12. The Common Volition ...................................................... 111
13. This Space Is Ours - The 2010s ........................................ 117
THIS SPACE IS OURS .......................................................... 123
14. Liveable place ................................................................... 127
SLOWLY ............................................................................... 127
Sea and Its Drop ..................................................................... 130
A liveable Place ...................................................................... 132
15. The Continuation – The 2010s ......................................... 134
Ad astra per asperas ................................................................ 139
Adventure Venture ................................................................. 142
Some Biró Poems in English .................................................. 189
So, this is Europe in 2023 ....................................................... 189
„Echoes of Change” ............................................................... 190
Limeric For Tonight /1984/ ................................................. 191
Steve’s forty /1987/ ................................................................ 191
APPENDIX ............................................................................ 193
Desiderata ............................................................................... 193

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