Flower Children
From the novel “The Invisible Side” by Aleksander Rybczyński;
By Alek Rybczynski, CFP's Poland Reporter —— Bio and Archives--January 11, 2026
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Copenhagen, March 1982. Michał Wojkowski, now a medical student, reconnects with Thomas and Sophie—the hippies who once rescued him and his mother during their dramatic escape from occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. Over coffee at Café Sommersko, the conversation turns to dreams abandoned and ideals compromised. Denmark has joined the European Economic Community, Greenland voted to leave it, and in Poland, martial law has crushed Solidarity. The flower children of the ’60s now wear business suits and speak the language of pragmatism. But as Michał walks home through gray Nørrebro streets, he wonders: Is this wisdom—or capitulation? And what does freedom really mean when everyone eventually stops fighting for it?
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