Přidáno: August 12, 2024

Owing to the “alertness” of the State Security (StB), interesting and yet unknown photographs of the occupying Polish troops in Zdar nad Sazavou, dated August 1968, have been preserved in file no. KR-4201 BN, along with photographs from the…

Přidáno: July 10, 2024

During the onset of the so-called normalisation of society and, generally, in 1968–1989, just like after 1948, attention was paid to organising as many children’s and youth leisure activities as possible, emphasising their political and ideological education. This was…

Přidáno: June 4, 2024

The former Czech foreign intelligence service (codenamed Department I until 1989) also used methods of terror in its work. To achieve its goals, or the objectives of the country’s political leadership, it organised kidnappings and assassinations. It did not…

Přidáno: May 1, 2024

During the era of communist Czechoslovakia, the month of May was linked with an amnesty several times. It was usually announced on the occasion of Czechoslovakia’s liberation (1955, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1965), but the preamble may have also stated…

Přidáno: March 1, 2024

A large number of investigation files that have been preserved in the ABS deal with a specific event, for instance, an air crash, a war crime during the Nazi occupation, or a border disturbance on the Iron Curtain. Some…