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A century of Czech independence - according to Pavel Kosatík
As the end of 2018 draws near, Czechs are reflecting on the century of their independent state. All years ending in “8” have a special meaning for this nation – 1918, 1938…
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The Světlana case: partisan fighters, agent provocateurs, and the Third Resistance in Czechoslovakia
The short-lived secret organisation Světlana formed in 1948 grew to become the largest anti-Communist group in Czechoslovakia, boasting several hundred members at its peak…
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Book on Czechoslovak spy to be adopted by Hollywood
One of the most fascinating Cold War spy tales, involving a Czechoslovak operative who fooled a woman into thinking he was her long abandoned son, is being adopted as a…
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Why did Communists allow first public demonstration on December 10, 1988?
Monday is the 30th anniversary of the first demonstration ever permitted by Czechoslovakia’s Communists. But why did the regime allow their enemies like Václav Havel to…
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Czechs and the aristocracy: a love-hate relationship
Czechs have always had somewhat contradictory feelings toward their nobility. One of the country’s leading aristocrats once even bitterly complained that Czechs are either…
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Terezín attics yield traces of life, hopes, dreams of prisoners in war-time Jewish ghetto
In 1941, Nazi Germany turned the centuries-old Czech garrison town of Terezín into a Jewish ghetto and concentration camp. Over the next few years, some 155,000 people…
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RAF pilot given honorary citizenship in Teplice
Kurt Taussig is one of the 669 Czech Jewish children who were saved from the Holocaust by Sir Nicholas Winton on the eve of the Second World War. The 95-year-old man, who…
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Czechoslovakia’s secret Cambridge students
You may be surprised to hear that one of the events to mark the hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Czechoslovakia was held at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge…
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Vladimír Dzuro: The ex-Prague detective who made a groundbreaking war crimes arrest in former…
As a war crimes investigator in former Yugoslavia Vladimír Dzuro took part in the exhumation of a notorious mass grave in which 200 massacred Croats had been dumped. He…
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Timothy Snyder: Significant figures in Czech history didn’t just want to change Czech society but…
Historian Timothy Snyder is a leading expert on Central and Eastern Europe and has written forcefully about the threat posed by Putin’s Russia and how ordinary people can…
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Prague to recreate 1988 Mitterrand breakfast in human rights gesture
In December 1988 Francois Mitterrand had breakfast with leading dissidents in Prague, providing a major shot in the arm to the Czechoslovak opposition. The Czech Foreign…
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Gail Papp on Václav Havel among New York’s hippies – and under house arrest in communist…
Taking advantage of relative liberalisation at home, the young Václav Havel visited New York in the spring of 1968 for the US premiere of his second major play, The…
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