History
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Lubos Jednorozec - Czech Papillon
Lubos Jednorozec is one of the few men who managed to escape the communist prison camps of the 1950s still alive today. But that was not his only attempt to win his…
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Commentator: Czech NATO accession was possible under Yeltsin
On Monday, the news was announced that former Russian President Boris Yeltsin had died of heart failure aged 76. Throughout the world, Boris Yeltsin will be remembered as…
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Novy Jicin rediscovers its famous native Alfred Neubauer, legendary racing manager
The legendary automobile constructor Ferdinand Porsche is not the only world-renowned personality connected with the automotive industry to have been born in what is now…
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Communist-era prime minister Ladislav Adamec dies
Former communist prime minister of Czechoslovakia, Ladislav Adamec, died at the weekend at the age of 80. A noted pragmatist, Mr Adamec headed the Czechoslovak government…
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New music school brightens Terezin's dark legacy
The Czech town of Terezin was the infamous site of a Nazi "show camp" for Jewish detainees during the Second World War. In order to convince the International Red Cross…
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Ambitious Nazi counterfeiting plot recalled by Holocaust survivor
Among the films premiered at this year's Berlin Film Festival was a German-language picture called Die Falscher - The Counterfeiter. It is based on the remarkable memoirs…
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Pavel Tigrid honoured in Paris
A special plaque has been unveiled in Paris in honour of the late journalist Pavel Tigrid - one of the most influential Czech personalities of the twentieth century.
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The short-lived legacy of industrial giant Emil Kolben
In this edition of Czechs in History, we reflect on the life and work of Emil Kolben. He was born on November 1, 1862, to a Jewish family in the little village of…
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Young director to bring story of Milada Horakova to silver screen
In this week's Arts, one of Czechoslovakia's most infamous communist show trials could be about to become a Hollywood blockbuster. We talk to a young Czech film producer…
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WWII war hero, RAF pilot Antonin Spacek dies at 89
One of the country's greatest Second World War heroes, RAF pilot Antonin Spacek has died at the age of eighty-nine. We look at the life of a man who spent his life serving…
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Prague Airport celebrates 70th birthday
Welcome to Prague Airport located just east of the capital. All it takes is a thirty-minute metro and bus ride from the centre of Prague to get to a place which connects…
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A look at the Czech Esperanto movement
Esperanto in the Czech lands goes back more than one hundred years. Individual enthusiasts were already promoting the language at the end of the 19th century, and in the…
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