Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:48:13 +0200https://english.radio.cz/journalist-and-writer-ales-brezina-8549813© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalAleš Březina is a journalist, author and also editor and publisher of the Canadian-based Czech and Slovak bi-weekly newsletter “Satellite 1-416”. Mr Březina was born in Prague in 1948 and left Czechoslovakia in 1980 after spending more than two years in jail as a conscientious objector, rejecting mandatory conscription in the army. Since then, he has lived in Canada and has just published a new book called "Řetěz Bláznů"– or Chain of Fools – filled with short stories written between the 1960s and early 1980s, reflecting on life in communist Czechoslovakia and the author’s subsequent move to Canada. When I met up with him in Canada for this edition of One on One I asked him to recall his early years in Czechoslovakia.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/brezina_ales_0.jpg?timestamp=1591182684 https://english.radio.cz/journalist-and-writer-ales-brezina-8549813 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9