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Czech Republic remains a mystery to news networks, social media. There is nothing like a crisis in Europe to show how little the American news media knows about even the basics of Europe. Cable news ...
Susan Marschall will be taking a vacation in Prague next month, but she expects it will be a little different than the first time she was in the Czech Republic city. Skip to content All Sections ...
Prague Spring: 50 years on what can we learn from Czechoslovakia's failed attempt to reform communism? A programme of liberalisation was met with 2,000 Soviet tanks and 250,000 soldiers on the streets ...
On Aug. 21, 50 years ago, the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia killed the dreams of reformers, broke the spirit of a nation and ushered in an era of oppression whose effects are still felt today.
The pilot for a proposed series on East European countries, ”Czechoslovakia: The Long Wait for Spring,” which airs at 9 p.m. Wednesday on WTTW-Ch. 11, is a solid but rather dutiful exam… ...
For four months in 1968, Czechoslovakia broke free from Soviet rule, allowing freedom of speech and removing some state controls. It is now referred to as the Prague Spring, but why didn't it last?
This event marked the end of the "Prague Spring," a period of attempted political and economic reforms in Czechoslovakia. By Daily Express 00:01, Tue, Aug 22, 2023 ...
Jiri Mádl directs 'Waves,' a drama about the Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that serves as the Czech Republic's entry for the 2025 Oscars.
Lubomir Strougal, who led Czechoslovakia for 18 years during the Cold War and in later years faced prosecution twice on charges related to abuse of power but was never convicted, died Feb. 6 at 98.