History
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US diplomacy and the Czechoslovak communist coup d'etat of 1948: a story of naïveté and shock
Seventy years ago the new Czechoslovak government was fully in the hands of the Communists. After the Stalinist coup d'etat in February 1948, a wave of arrests started and…
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Portraits highlight Czech resistance stories
The Václav Havel library, in cooperation with photographer Pavel Hroch, has recently launched an online exhibition called ‘The Faces of Resistance’. The project presents…
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Only Czech in space Remek recalls historic flight, 40 years on
Friday is the 40th anniversary of the day Vladimír Remek became the first, and so far only, Czech in space. In fact the cosmonaut was the first non-citizen of the US or…
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The return of the Brno mummy!
There is a place in Moravia where you can see real mummies. They are not as old as those in Egypt, but old enough to generate genuine scientific interest among…
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1948 Communist takeover seals country’s fate for four decades
On February 25, 1948, the Communist Party seized power in Czechoslovakia, marking the onset of four decades of hard-line, authoritarian rule. The Communist takeover was…
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Communist coup confirmed Czechoslovak reality but was wake-up call for West
For around 40 years, so-called Victorious February was sacred for the Czechoslovak communist regime. The period from around February 17 and culminating on February 25…
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WWII RAF fighter pilot Miroslav Liškutín dies at 98
Miroslav Liškutín, one of the last Czechoslovak fighter pilots who served with the British RAF during WWII, died in Great Britain on Monday at the age of 98. Last year…
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Sylva Šimsová: Escaping to freedom all I thought about was survival – the fear came later
Sylva Šimsová was 18 when her father, a Social Democrat politician, told her the family had to escape from Czechoslovakia. It was 1949, a year after the Communists had…
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My father, the RAF hero who defected from Czechoslovakia in a daring triple-hijack
Fearing prison in Communist Czechoslovakia, in March 1950 Oldřich Doležal and other ex-RAF aviators simultaneously kidnapped three planes on internal flights and escaped…
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Lisa Miková: I volunteered to go to Auschwitz
Since her early childhood in the 1920s, Lisa Miková had dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. When as a student she started submitting her designs to one of the best…
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Ivan Hartl: A one-man international branch of the Czech underground
Ivan Hartl has been living in the UK since the late 1960s. From there he helped run banned literature into his native Czechoslovakia with Palach Press, as well as…
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Jaroslava Doležalová - a story of bravery and inequality
Jaroslava Doležalová has become an honorary citizen of her home town Žďár nad Sázavou. She hid a little Jewish girl during WW II and probably saved her life, risking her…
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