History
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First non-superpower astronaut Remek says both sides used space exploration as propaganda
Thirty years ago Vladimír Remek became the first man in space who was not from either the United States or the Soviet Union. Remek became a hero not in only in his native…
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Anti-communist rebel Milan Paumer honoured by prime minister
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek awarded Milan Paumer, the third member of the so-called Mašín group, with a medal of honour on Tuesday. Last week, during a trip to…
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Mailbox
Today in Mailbox we disclose the identity of our February mystery woman and announce the names of the four winners who will receive small gifts from Radio Prague for their…
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Czech prime minister grants first official recognition of controversial Mašín group
Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek has surprised many by honouring the anti-communist fighter Josef Mašín. Mr Topolánek was due to present the US resident with a prime…
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Ancient Greece comes to Prague in the summer of 1938
In the early summer of 1938 an unprepared visitor would have found it hard to find a hotel in Prague. Tens of thousands of people from dozens of countries, including…
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Ambitious Nazi counterfeiting plot recalled by Holocaust survivor
On Sunday The Counterfeiters, based on the memoirs of Prague resident Adolf Burger, won the Academy Award for best foreign language film. Mr Burger’s book The Devil’s…
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Replica of 1940s Czech “snow car” tested before going to American museum
A replica of the Czech made Tatra aero sledge, which was produced for the Germans during the Second World War, has recently been made for a collector in the United States…
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Ondřej Kohout: exiled artist who made Vienna his home
In this edition of Czechs Today, we talk to Ondřej Kohout, a painter and stage designer who left Czechoslovakia with his family in the early 1980s after signing the…
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Communist advisor – ‘stubborn facts’ prove Czechs benefited from 1948
Not everyone who marked the 60th anniversary of the communist takeover on Monday was mourning the victims of the regime. Several hundred mostly elderly Communist Party…
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Czech Republic marks anniversary of 1948 communist putsch
It was 60 years ago Monday, that Czech President Edvard Beneš, under enormous pressure, capitulated and appointed a communist government led by Klement Gottwald. This…
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Nessie sighted on a Czech breakfast table
Recent editions of this programme have been rather full of doom and gloom, as we have approached the Second World War in our archives. So this week we look at something a…
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Jiří Stránský: a doctor of prison sciences
As a writer Jiří Stránský has never had to look far beyond his own extraordinary life story for inspiration. He was born in 1931 into an influential Prague political…
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