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Two Letters from Czechoslovakia

Two Letters from Czechoslovakia

Přidáno: September 19, 2023

The plenipotentiary of Boris Yeltzin, the President of the Russian Federation handed over to Vaclav Havel, the President of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic a collection of seven verified copies of documents on 16 July 1992 that had up to…

Foreign Equipment at the Danube Border Guard

Foreign Equipment at the Danube Border Guard

Přidáno: July 10, 2023

After the end of the Second World War and the restoration of the Czechoslovak Republic, the question arose as to how to protect the state borders on the Danube. After the change of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border in 1947, when…

Honoured against His Own Will

Honoured against His Own Will

Přidáno: June 12, 2023

One of the characteristic features of the post-war period were the efforts of the security forces to track down and punish any collaborators of the Protectorate regime as they deserved. Many of these persons were awarded the so-called St….

Assassination in Strasbourg

Assassination in Strasbourg

Přidáno: May 5, 2023

Sixty-six years ago, on 17 May 1957, Henriette Tremeaud, the wife of the Prefect of the French department of Bas-Rhin, was murdered. She was killed in the explosion of a tripwire device placed in a cigar box. It turned…