Perhaps it’s not surprising that few people, up until recently, have heard of the small sovereign (though unrecognised internationally) state of the Isola delle Rose (Rose Island) – or to give it its official title, in esperanto, Insulo de la Rozoj. It’s foundation and eventual destruction – at the hands of Italian military engineers – took place in the hot summer of 1968, when student demonstrations shook Europe, and the Warsaw Pact prepared to smash violently the Prague Spring uprising.
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