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Rare coin treasure troves headed for Czech museum
Two rare treasures have been discovered by chance this year in South Bohemia. One of them, consisting of hundreds of silver coins from the 11th century, has now gone on…
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Czech researchers gain access to Soviet World War II prisoner of war records
Czech and Slovak researchers have received a wealth of documents from the Russian authorities about the fates of thousands of Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned within the…
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Days of the Jackal: International terrorists in communist Prague
Why did Prague become a base for notorious terrorists such as Carlos the Jackal in the 1970s and ‘80s? And why did the local Communists want them out?
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Hana Marritz: Escape to the West, aged three
When Hana Marritz’s father became a marked man following the Communist takeover, her family had to make an arduous escape across the Iron Curtain.
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk: Seeing and listening to the jungles of our human society
Eighty years ago this week, Czechoslovakia’s first president Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk died at the age of eighty-seven. He had led the country from its independence in 1918…
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50 years of the D1, the country’s oldest motorway
Construction work began on the Czech Republic’s oldest and busiest motorway exactly 50 years ago. But the D1 is still not finished.
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Paul Robeson in Czechoslovakia: all culture comes from the people
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States sent ripples around the world, not least in the Soviet Union and its satellites. In Czechoslovakia, events were followed…
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Shapely Czech Venus reveals secrets
First results from a scan of the famous Venus of Dolní Věstonice show it was made from one piece of clay from the local site.
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Then Czechoslovak Radio boss recalls August 1968
On the 49th anniversary of the Soviet invasion, then Czechoslovak Radio chief Karel Lanský recalls that fateful time.
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Rare photos of 1968 invasion discovered
Czech Radio has brought readers rare, as yet unpublished photographs of the 1968 Russian-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The photos were taken by Polish geologist Leszek…
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Jan Urban: I returned to Czechoslovakia a day before the 1968 invasion
This August 21 marks the 49th anniversary of the Russian-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Wenceslas Square in Prague has been a pivotal location…
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Historians pin down number of 1968 invasion victims
A new book by Czech historians specifies the number of victims of the 1968 Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia. According to the book, called Occupation 1968 and its…
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