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Major exhibition on totalitarianism to open under Prague metronome in October
Starting in October, the area around Prague‘s metronome will house a large exhibition detailing the key moments in Czech totalitarian history. The project, which was…
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Barbara Winton: None of us understood the implications of what my father had done until we began to…
The late Sir Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 children, most of them Jewish, when he organised for them to leave Czechoslovakia for his native UK on the eve of WWII…
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Photo exhibition maps century since 1918 via country’s presidents
A new exhibition in Prague maps the century since the foundation of Czechoslovakia via photographs of the presidents who have served since 1918. I Hereby Proclaim My…
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Moscow 1968 protester Pavel Litvinov: We didn’t hope to achieve anything – we just felt we have to…
On August 25, 1968 eight brave souls held a public protest on Moscow’s Red Square against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. They all paid dearly for that act of…
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New tourist trail in Krkonoše marks clandestine dissident meetings
In the 1970s and ‘80s, Czech and Polish dissidents, including Václav Havel and Adam Michnik, held clandestine talks in the Krkonoše Mountains, which forms part of the…
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British author Nigel Peace publishes powerful love-story set against the backdrop of 1968 invasion
British author Nigel Peace has just published a powerful love story set against the background of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact. The novel is…
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‘Occupation 1968’ documents invasion, aftermath from soldiers’ viewpoint
The omnibus documentary film ‘Occupation 1968’ offers a rare glimpse into the invasion of Czechoslovakia from the perspective of common Warsaw Pact soldiers, as well as…
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Jan Palach’s act was in part directed at future generations, says director of new film
Among many events held in connection with the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia was the premiere of a new film about Jan Palach. The student famously took…
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A Prayer for Marta crowns huge concert marking invasion anniversary
The biggest public event marking the 50th anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia was a concert that filled Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Tuesday evening. The…
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Czech Radio 1968 memorial partly overshadowed by anti-Babiš protest
One of the key events marking Tuesday’s anniversary of the Soviet-led invasion was a memorial at Czech Radio, scene of the worst violence on August 21, 1968. However, the…
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Former CTK journalist recalls fateful day of Warsaw Pact invasion
Johnny Krcmar was a journalist working for the ctk news agency at the time of the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. Like millions of others he was woken up in the…
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“Planes were landing every 50 seconds”: The Finnish friends who got caught up in the 1968 invasion
Finns Pentti Avomaa and Markku Pekonen were students when they visited Prague in August 1968, keen to learn about Communist Czechoslovakia’s liberal reforms at first hand…
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