Přidáno: May 1, 2020
The Games of the XXII Olympiad in 1980 took place in a disturbed geopolitical situation. They were intended as a presentation of the successes of the Soviet Union as the organising country and other states of the former Eastern…
Přidáno: April 1, 2020
Relocation of the Church in Most At the end of the 1950s the lignite mines in the Most region reached almost to the very borders of the town of Most. In 1964 the Czechoslovak government issued a decision to…
Přidáno: March 2, 2020
Eavesdropping of the Secret Police Installed in the Flat of Alfréd Radok Alfréd Radok (1914–1976), Czech theatre and film director, founder and the first artistic director of Laterna Magica theatre, is a well-known figure. His fate is similar to…
Přidáno: February 1, 2020
It’s been already almost 60 years since one of the greatest affairs of the Intelligence Department of the General Headquarters of the Czechoslovak People’s Army that influenced considerably the functioning of this intelligence service and caused its complete personal…
Přidáno: January 6, 2020
In spring 1993 an inconspicuous man came to the Czech Republic from Great Britain, unnoticed by the media. Hardly anybody was aware that this man was an officer of the I. Directorate of Security Corps – the foreign intelligence…
Přidáno: December 3, 2019
Shortly after the changes that began on 17 November 1989 it was not certain at all whether the regime would use its power against the rising protests. In such case, plans to carry out special security operations would be…
Přidáno: November 4, 2019
The department of the Security Services Archive in Kanice by Brno attracted the attention of public as well as media because of the infamous “wild discarding” of State Security documents. The building which the Archive uses now was the…
Přidáno: October 1, 2019
There was not much space to criticize the regime neither in Czechoslovakia nor in the whole Eastern Bloc during the times of the Communist Party rule. Questioning the government’s successes and ridiculing communist statesmen in public was perceived as…
Přidáno: September 1, 2019
Disinformation and Operative Camouflage in the Czechoslovak People’s Army (CSLA) The Military Intelligence Headquarters collection contains, besides other materials, also those produced by the so-called Committee for Central Control of Disinformation. Its members were the Chief Commander of the…
Přidáno: August 1, 2019
Using watchtowers played an important role in the military guard system of the Czechoslovak state borders with Austria and Germany in 1951–1989. Originally they were a wooden structure with a gallery and guard shelter on top. Later, mainly metal…
