Prague’s colorful wall dedicated to the memory of John Lennon has been painted over, leaving just a single message: “Wall is over!”
The wall, located at the heart of the Czech capital in the picturesque Little Quarter neighborhood, began to be painted with Lennon’s images and related graffiti after the Beatle’s assassination in 1980.
Under the communist regime, it became a symbol of freedom and opposition to communism and young people used to meet there to light candles and lay flowers. After the 1989 anti-
communist Velvet Revolution, it turned into a tourist attraction.
Recently, messages in support of democracy protests in Hong Kong appeared on the wall, while another Lennon wall sprang up in Hong Kong itself.
A group of art students claimed responsibility for painting the wall white and leaving the message, an apparent play on the words of the Lennon hit “Happy Xmas (War is Over).”
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