Vaclavska Nám

I’ve been to Prague and back, and seen these flowers in their bed along the Vaclavska Nám with the Narodni Muzeum. This is the place of the Velvet Revolution of 1989, the place where two students burned themselves to death as a protest against Communism. Were there flowers here during the Cold War? And do we take them for granted now? What happened to the dreams and the flower power?