History
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“Několik vět” petition marked the final months of communism in Czechoslovakia
In June 1989, a group of people around the dissident and future president, Václav Havel, put together a petition to the communist authorities asking them to stop…
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Prague hosts crucial conference over return of Jewish property looted by Nazis
Prague is a hosting a five-day international conference on the return of looted WWII Jewish property. The conference has been billed as a last chance to clear obstacles…
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Jakeš stands alone like a fencepost
The expression “jako kůl v plotě” – “like a fencepost” - entered Czech folklore in the summer of 1989. The date was July 17 and Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party chief…
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Artworks from Hitler’s collection discovered at Czech museums
Part of a large art collection that once belonged to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is dispersed in several Czech museums – often without their curators being aware of it…
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Watching the H-Trial
Never having been inside a courtroom or seen a real court case in action it was something of a shock to find myself watching the most notorious show trial of the communist…
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Remembering General Heliodor Píka, first victim of the communist show trials
In the early morning of June 21, 1949, General Heliodor Píka, a hero of World Wars I and II, became the first Czechoslovak to be executed by the new communist regime…
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December 1988: Mitterrand meets dissidents in Prague
In the second half of the 1980s the sweeping reforms in the Soviet Union were being echoed in several of the country’s Eastern Bloc satellites. But in Czechoslovakia there…
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Perestroika passes Czechoslovakia by
When Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union, it heralded a revolution in Soviet-American relations. At a series of high-profile summits, beginning in Geneva…
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Emanuel Moravec – the face of Czech collaboration with the Nazis
Some figures are cast as heroes and others as villains. Emanuel Moravec - the face, voice and main force behind Czech collaboration with the occupying Nazis during WWII …
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John Tregellas: going native in Prague
I first met John Tregellas just after the Velvet Revolution, when we both started working for Radio Prague at a time of huge changes in Czech society. At the time neither…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox we find out the name of our May mystery man as well as those of the four listeners who will receive Radio Prague prizes for their correct answers…
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Czechs commemorate Polish elections which ‘paved way’ for Velvet Revolution
Leaders from around the continent gathered in Krakow on Thursday to mark 20 years since Poland’s first partly free elections which swept the anti-communist movement…
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