My year 1968

What was the world like in a year that so fundamentally changed the lives of several generations? What reality did those who have this pivotal year in our history listed in the "Born" column enter? And what was the everyday life of ordinary people like against the backdrop of "great" history? Even in the most stressful moments of history, people live their everyday lives - shopping, going to the cinema, meeting in cafes and pubs, playing sports, working...

The book you are holding in your hands will show you 1968 from a slightly different angle. You will read what people were entertained with at the time, what theatrical performances moved the cultural public, what was worn and why three-crown coins disappeared from circulation. We will remind you of the Olympic Games in Mexico and Grenoble, where our athletes have celebrated considerable success, we'll go back in time, when viewers wrote to the television, not to air entertainment shows, because the political scene is much more interesting and we look back on a time when gentlemen were advised to smoke a strong cigar in the corridor. We cannot, of course, avoid the fateful date of 21 August. We decided to look at it through untypical eyes - the eyes of those who were seven, eight, ten years old that day. Most of them did not understand the tragedy of the events, but the memory is so strong that even after fifty years it does not fade.

So let's plunge into the depths of time, into the year when Donald Trump is getting his bachelor's degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Ivana Trump is studying high school in Gottwaldov and taking up skiing, Vladimir Putin is attending the eighth grade at the No. 193 in Leningrad, Sergei Lavrov is studying Sinhala at the State Institute of International Relations in Moscow and Terry Pratchett is getting married.