Campaign highlights plight of present-day refugees by recalling dramatic communist-era escapes

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:18:04 +0200Campaign highlights plight of present-day refugees by recalling dramatic communist-era escapeshttps://english.radio.cz/campaign-highlights-plight-present-day-refugees-recalling-dramatic-communist-era-8232964© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalA new campaign launched by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees called “We ourselves were refugees” is attempting to show that the current refugee crisis, at its heart, is no different from when people in the former communist bloc tried to escape to freedom. Print, radio, and video clips retell dramatic escapes from the past, including that of a man who escaped Czechoslovakia with his little boy on a homemade hang-glider.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/sami_jsme_byli_uprchlici.jpg?timestamp=1590614798 Campaign highlights plight of present-day refugees by recalling dramatic communist-era escapes https://english.radio.cz/campaign-highlights-plight-present-day-refugees-recalling-dramatic-communist-era-8232964 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9