![]() In a few days, though, their Canadian-born daughter is going back.Ī lot has changed: It's the Czech Republic now, the Soviet Union dissolved nearly 23 years ago and Prague has become a destination for creative types and American expats. "There was no prospect during those years that there would ever be a time when communism didn't control that part of the world." ![]() "They left kind of thinking they'd never go back," Spitzer says. It was a bleak time: The brief Prague Spring, an experiment in increased freedom and democratization in the then-Eastern Bloc state, had been decisively terminated by a Soviet invasion. When Carrboro musician Wendy Spitzer's parents left Czechoslovakia in 1968, they didn't envision returning. Wendy Spitzer and Billy Sugarfix, at homein Carrboro-at least for a little while.
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