History
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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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Jan Masaryk and the experiment in vivisection
In 1938 at the height of the Sudeten crisis, Jan Masaryk was Czechoslovakia’s ambassador in London. He was the son of the country’s first President Tomas Garrigue Masaryk…
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Josef Lada – landscape painter and Švejk illustrator
As one art critic once said, the paintings of Josef Lada accompany Czechs from cradle to grave. He is as well known for his illustrations of fairy tales and children’s…
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High Court overturns guilty verdict in Milada Horáková murder case
When an 86-year-old former communist prosecutor was convicted last year for her role in the judicial murder of politician Milada Horáková, those looking for justice for…
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Magazine
Don’t eat that – its fifty years old! Czech researchers eat a package of soup that had been sitting around for half a century. “Six fingers are better than five,” says a…
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“Red stars over Bethlehem”: 90 years of Czech and Czechoslovak presidents
We have heard plenty in recent weeks from the two candidates in this year’s Czech presidential elections. But what about their predecessors? The Czech Republic and…
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Edvard Beneš: a choice of evils
In sombre tones the second Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš announced his resignation on Czechoslovak Radio on October 5 1938. Since becoming president in 1935, he had…
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Communist era life and style revisited in Czech TV show
Céčka, tuzex and trvalá – for those growing up in the communist Czechoslovakia these were a part of daily life. As of tomorrow, you can find out more about those trends in…
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Mailbox
This week in Mailbox: we disclose the identity of our January mystery man and announce the names of the four lucky winners. There will also be a brand new quiz question…
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Czech Republic has some catching up to do, says director of new body examining communist past
After years of debate, the Czech Republic has finally got an official body dedicated to examining the country’s communist past. Entitled the Institute for the Study of…
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After Munich: Czechoslovakia left to her fate
In recent weeks, I’ve tried to capture something of the tense atmosphere of the time leading up to the Munich Agreement of September 30 1938, when the British and French…
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“Magic Eights” film festival looks back at 1918, 1938, 1948, 1968…
There’s a rather unusual film festival underway at Prague’s Ořechovka cinema at the moment. Called “The Magic Eights”, it examines the strange significance of the number …
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