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Glice: here's a very stylish axample of what you've been missing, just broadcast by Radio Prague*:
..Not too long ago the best anyone was likely to come up with on a rainy day at the cottage was a mouldy edition of "Clovece, nezlob se" - Man, Don't Be Angry, the Czech version of the children's game Ludo, where you try and get your pawns to home base while bumping your opponents off the track! Not a scintillating experience unless you're about eight years old. On the other hand, in the early 1990s there was at least a decent parody of the game developed by comic Czech singer and songwriter Ivan Mladek. His game "Soudruhu, nezlob se" - Comrade, Don't be Angry! made far better use of the original game's simple but ruthless principles in a way that was funny and wonderfully dark.
The idea was to roll-and-move your pawn along a track, gradually collecting cash and cards that either helped or hurt your rise in the echelons of communist power. One card that I remember well read something like "Drunk in the pub, you declare Havel will one day be president. Go straight to psychiatric ward for treatment." In its way, the game perfectly captured the euphoric mood of the 90s following communism's demise. In the very last stage you traded your hard-earned Czechoslovak crowns for West German marks so you could make a final cynical dash over the border to the West. A final roll of the die determined whether you successfully made it past the machine guns, minefields, and electric fence. Like I said, the humour was black...
*Radio Praha, if you prefer.
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