Gottland: Mostly True Stories From Half Of Czechoslovakia

"This book has amazingly surreal vignettes from one of the many former East bloc countries that were trying to live an enforced lie. From the starlet who was Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ mistress (an affair Hitler himself put an end to) to the man who modeled for a statue of Stalin and then took to drink from being identified as him, these stories are presented with plenty of breathing room for the reader to make inferences. I love that kind of writing."