During Czechoslovakia’s “springtime of freedom,” First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek was the symbol of the country’s new liberal spirit. Now, in the winter of its agony, Dubcek has ...

The crossed hammers and crown are the symbols of the town, Pirkenhammer. Czechoslovakia was formed in 1918 and dissolved in 1993, becoming the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Insure your circa-1930 ...

Ondřej Matějka, who is the Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, explores some issues related to heraldry, meaning national symbols and the iconography of the Czech ...

Several European Parliament members have urged the EU to match a proposed ban on Nazi signs with one on communist symbols like the hammer and sickle. The MEPs, from Lithuania, Estonia, the Czech ...