History
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Peroutka’s granddaughter wins apology from president, but fails to clear grandfather’s name
The saga of the drawn-out court battle between Czech President Miloš Zeman and the granddaughter of one of the most respected Czech journalists Ferdinand Peroutka has…
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European Heritage Days to open hundreds of cultural and historical sites
Nearly a thousand cultural and historical sites as well as technical monuments across the Czech Republic will open to the public for free during the European Heritage Days…
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Assassination scene in Anthropoid one of best in movies, says historical adviser Zdeněk Špitálník
Czech viewers will finally get the chance to see Anthropoid at the end of September, when the much-anticipated movie hits cinemas around the country. Exploring the daring…
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Former Czechoslovak communist leaders sued in Germany for Iron Curtain deaths
Former high ranking communist party leaders such as Milouš Jakeš and prime minister Lubomír Štrougal are among 67 Czechs and Slovaks being sued for the deaths of five…
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Czechoslovakia and India through the archives
In this, the last programme in our series to mark Radio Prague’s 80th birthday, we travel eastwards looking at links between India and Czechoslovakia both before and after…
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Nine Gates festival highlights Shanghai’s role in Jewish history
This week, Prague is hosting the seventeenth edition of the annual Nine Gates festival of Czech-German-Jewish culture. The event, which got underway on Wednesday, takes…
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Priceless artefact undergoes scanning
The Venus of Dolní Věstonice, a ceramic sculpture of a female figure believed to be 29,000 years old and considered one of the oldest artefacts of its kind in the world…
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Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes prepares to launch new educative website
The country’s Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes is putting the final touches on a new educative portal mapping 40 years of communism in the former…
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A. J. P. Taylor in 1946: a British historian predicts democracy under communism for Czechoslovakia
This week in our series to mark Radio Prague’s 80th birthday we feature a recording made in the summer of 1946, when Radio Prague was exactly ten years old. A. J. P…
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Germany to pay compensation to remaining victims of Roma Holocaust
Germany is to pay compensation to remaining elderly victims of the Roma Holocaust who suffered during WWII in concentration camps such as Lety or the death camp Auschwitz…
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Havel’s philosophy was far more important than that of many academic thinkers, says Aviezer Tucker
Struck as a PhD student by the philosophical language used by Václav Havel in his famous 1990 speech to the US Congress, Aviezer Tucker went on to write The Philosophy and…
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An English girl and a Czech soldier
In the last programme in our series marking Radio Prague’s 80th birthday we heard recordings of Czechs and Slovaks fighting in the British armed forces during World War…
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