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Mother Teresa’s Visit

Mother Teresa’s Visit

Přidáno: November 1, 2018

34 years ago, in November 1984, a nun from India, Albanian by origin, the founder and superior of the Missionaries of Charity and laureate of the Nobel prize, Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known more as Mother Teresa, visited Czechoslovakia for…

Socialist Munich

Socialist Munich

Přidáno: October 3, 2018

On 16 October 1968 the Czechoslovak Prime Minister Oldrich Cernik and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union Alexei Kosygin signed a treaty between the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the government of…

Stars Do Not Lie

Stars Do Not Lie

Přidáno: September 3, 2018

The Czech nation is well known for coping with bad news and events with a unique sense of folk humour. It wasn’t any different after the occupation in 1968, when people didn’t hesitate to write mocking slogans on the…

Demonstration in London

Demonstration in London

Přidáno: August 1, 2018

Reportedly approximately 300 people, mostly British trade union members, gathered on Sunday 19th August 1979 in Hyde Park, London, to support the normalisation regime in Czechoslovakia. The demonstration was organized by The New Communist Party of Britain (NCP) on…