"Symbols of a Dark Time Even in a city like Prague is filled with unusual and world-classart, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism at Petrin hill in Mala Strana will command your total attention. Dedicated to those who were arrested, shot, exiled, and otherwise brutalized during the Communist era of 1948 to 1989, this masterpiece made by sculptor Olbram Zoubek andarchitects Jan Kerel and Zdenek Holzel is especially disturbing at dawn and twilight. Seven bronze men arestood ona set ofconcrete stairs, and only the first figure is intact, the statues decaying with each step up, symbolizing the effects of communism on the Czech people."