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He got interested in the photographs of a rapid succession of dying Soviet leaders, framed in slogans the window dressers used to express the city's loyalty to the Communism Party and to state socialism's ideals. After the 1989 revolution, the shops for green groceries, meats, jewellery and clothing were joined by McDonalds, Juwel, and Bagel&Coffee. Slogans like "The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia leads us to better physical education, sport and hill-walking" were replaced by new watchwords: "Clearance sale" and "Everythign 50% off". Stacho kept right on documenting. In doing so, he drex a "map of the world" - a world forming a generation of the transition from state socialism to capitalism, and a map telling us more of the era that many a historic or sociological study.