The "John Lennon Peace Wall" stands in a quiet square amidst the baroque architecture of Prague's diplomatic quarter. I unexpectedly discovered it, awash with vivid colours, the wall is long and it takes a while to appreciate some of the smaller significant details due to its scale. Lennon was a hero amongst the pacifist youth culture of Central and Eastern Europe during the communist period. In the decade following the collapse of Communism, the Lennon Wall came to represent not only a memorial to Lennon; his ideas, words and lyrics, but also a monument to free speech against the repressions of neo-stallinism.
Next to a freely drawn
portrait of Lennon are the words, "People don't die, they turn into flowers."
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