Re:Defenestration of Prague Window
by lordofmoria on Sunday July 16, 2023 @12:04PM
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My favorite tidbit has to do with the third defenestration of Prague (1948):
It was widely viewed as a likely assassination by the communists of foreign affairs minister Jan Masaryk. A clever poem emerged from it, with typically dark eastern bloc humor:
“Jan Masaryk was a very tidy man. He was such a tidy man that when he jumped he shut the window after himself.”
- David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic (2019)
It was widely viewed as a likely assassination by the communists of foreign affairs minister Jan Masaryk. A clever poem emerged from it, with typically dark eastern bloc humor:
“Jan Masaryk was a very tidy man. He was such a tidy man that when he jumped he shut the window after himself.”
- David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic (2019)