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A preserved fence with watchtower near Čížov (2009). The protection of borders between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (CSSR) and several of the capitalist countries of Western Europe, namely with West Germany and Austria, in the Cold War era and especially after 1951, was provided by special troops of the Pohraniční Stráž (English: the Border Guard) and a system of engineer ...
The relatives of Czech paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Josef Valčík and their fellows, in total 254 people, were executed en masse on 24 October 1942 in Mauthausen concentration camp. Beneš—the leader of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile—and František Moravec —head of Czechoslovak military intelligence—organized and coordinated a ...
The Memorial to the victims of Communism (Czech: Pomník obětem komunismu) is a series of statues in Prague commemorating the victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1989. It is located at the base of Petřín hill, Újezd street in the Malá Strana or the Lesser Town area.
The eventual goal of the German state under Nazi leadership was to eradicate Czech nationality through assimilation, deportation, and extermination of the Czech intelligentsia; the intellectual elites and middle class made up a considerable number of the 200,000 people who passed through concentration camps and the 250,000 who died during ...
Czechoslovak Republic (Czech and Slovak: Československá republika, ČSR), was the official name of Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1939 and between 1945 and 1960. See: First Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938) Second Czechoslovak Republic (1938–1939) Czechoslovak government-in-exile (1939–1945)
Consider Us speechless!Paulina Porizkova is wearing nothing (and we mean nothing) but a sheer black bodysuit on the May 2021 cover of Vogue Czechoslovakia — and to say she looks amazing is ...
The First Czechoslovak Republic emerged from the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in October 1918. The new state consisted mostly of territories inhabited by Czechs and Slovaks, but also included areas containing majority populations of other nationalities, particularly Germans (22.95 %), who accounted for more citizens than the state's second state nation of the Slovaks, [1] Hungarians ...
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Rozdělení Československa, Slovak: Rozdelenie Československa), which took effect on December 31, 1992, was the self-determined secession of the federal republic of Czechoslovakia into the independent countries of the Czech Republic (also known as Czechia) and Slovakia.