| 单词 | Czechoslovakia |
| 例句 | They carry, half concealed within their medical terminology, stories of such human tragedies as that of two young cousins in Czechoslovakia, boys who lived in the same town and had always worked and played together. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some people said we would be going to Czechoslovakia. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been traveling for twelve years between Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Austria, and other countries, clearing customs and crossing borders without incident. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I pinned my hair into curls and borrowed my sister’s lip rouge, humming while the radio blared the news that Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Five months later, on March 15, 1939, he sent German troops into Bohemia and Moravia, also regions of Czechoslovakia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The route from Gross-Rosen to Dachau, north of Munich, took us through Czechoslovakia and back into Germany again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z “He’s already annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia,” said Uncle Abraham. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z "He's going to relocate the factory to a town in Czechoslovakia and take us with him." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When Germany annexed Austria in March of 1938 and occupied the Sudentenland area of Czechoslovakia six months later, discrimination against Jews increased there as well. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He intended to unite all Germans into a Greater Germany, including ethnic Germans who lived in Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other countries with large German populations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He told them that he wanted the Sudetenland, the western portion of Czechoslovakia where another large ethnic German population lived. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z There was a change in the SS officers guarding us when we crossed into Czechoslovakia. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z That spring, Germany annexes Czechoslovakia and then demands Danzig and the Polish corridor—the land separating Germany from East Prussia. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The Germans are upset at stories that Czechs and Poles are abusing ethnic Germans living in Czechoslovakia and Poland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He annexed neighboring Austria in 1938, then demanded a huge region of Czechoslovakia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The World Power Conference and the International Management Conference were going to meet in eight months in England and Czechoslovakia, respectively. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Karl agreed, and he was sent to Czechoslovakia, where he was captured by the Soviet Russians and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She talked about how hardworking her parents were before the war hit Czechoslovakia. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Farther inside Czechoslovakia, some of the villagers hung out of their windows to throw whatever they had to us—crusts of bread, half-eaten apples, raw potatoes. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z As the German army rolled across Poland and into Eastern Europe toward Russia, the SS Einsatzgruppen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and western Russia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He writes: Most likely at least one adult — probably a coal miner from Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Italy — brought the virus to Limburg. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We traveled by train through Czechoslovakia, arriving finally in Salzburg, Austria. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There, these “great powers” signed an agreement that gave parts of Czechoslovakia to Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “They were refugees from other countries. Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia ...” “Is that what they were, now?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He lost or drew to some of the “smallfry,” including multiple players from Argentina, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There was every size from a variety of countries—America, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, and others. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z As the nineteenth century drew to a close, he saw a massive new wave of men flooding into Chicago, fleeing oppression in eastern Europe—from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Hitler orders troops to the border of Czechoslovakia, sending a strong warning to those who dare to mistreat Germans. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Early in 1946, David and Pesza devised a plan to go back to Czechoslovakia to see if they could settle there. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z On it was a news story, the first part of which was missing, but which must have taken place in Czechoslovakia. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Two sleeper agents from communist Czechoslovakia had been living for nearly a decade in the United States, posing as defectors and staunch anticommunists. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Although Hitler was at the height of his power, having conquered Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, the Balkans, the Netherlands, France, and parts of Russia, he remained worried about the United States. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The dentist, a Jew from Czechoslovakia, had a face not unlike a death mask. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Czechoslovakia was still held by Germany—it had been one of the first countries to fall at the start of the war—but the homes we passed now were Czech, not German. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z In March 1938, he took control of Austria and, in early October, part of what was then known as Czechoslovakia. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A few months later, he sent German troops into the rest of Czechoslovakia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, you’d have to row quite a ways to find my ducks somewhere in Italy, or France, or maybe Czechoslovakia, so that presents a problem, doesn’t it?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In 1948, Pesza and David joined a Zionist group and left Czechoslovakia for the new state of Israel that had been founded that very year. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Scientists in Czechoslovakia are experimenting with protozoa against webworms and other insect pests, and in the United States a protozoan parasite has been found to reduce the egg- laying potential of the corn borer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Starvation made the people of the world take notice and sparked protests and demonstrations in London and Moscow and Czechoslovakia. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For their preliminary, the boys from Washington were assigned to race against France, Japan, Czechoslovakia, and the crew they were most concerned about, Great Britain. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That biographical detail helps explain the exhibition's title — "Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful" — which was later stamped on official papers when he fled Czechoslovakia to London exile. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z There were the columns of tanks, an image out of the invasion of Czechoslovakia, Soviet newsreels and the 1984 movie “Red Dawn.” Ukraine on TV: We’ve Seen This Before. And We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z It drew extensively on archival footage, much of it smuggled out of Communist Czechoslovakia. Robert M. Fresco, Filmmaker and Writer, Dies at 83 2014-02-21T00:46:14Z Stoppard was born in Czechoslovakia and became closely involved with the dissident movement there, as well as travelling to the Soviet Union in the 80s with Amnesty, whose value as an organisation he calls "inestimable". The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z Beyond running, he was known for welcoming travellers into his modest home in Prague, and publicly criticising the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 at great personal risk. Feet of fire 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z As early as May 1992, before Clinton became president, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland jointly declared that their ultimate goal was to gain membership in NATO. The Rivalry That Forged the Cold War 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Following her movie career, Temple Black served as the U.S. ambassador to Ghana and then Czechoslovakia. Academy Museum gets $5-million gift from the late Shirley Temple Black's family 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Speaking to The New York Times about his teapot tempest, Wilder wondered if the studio was afraid of the “snobbish, intellectual” types who attended the festival, quipping that “my picture was not made in Czechoslovakia.” In 60th Year, New York Film Festival Stays True to Its Mission 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z There, I saw a picture of Adolf Hitler visiting Mikulov in October 1938, after the Munich agreement had ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to German rule. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z When Lobkowicz’s grandfather Maximilian fled the country hours ahead of the Panzers–thanks to his wife overhearing two German officers boasting on a train–he was among the richest men in Czechoslovakia. Bohemian Rhapsody: Tour Of Prague With A Czech Prince 2013-06-04T14:24:02Z According to “The Kingfisher Secret,” Russia’s efforts to disrupt American democracy at the highest levels began in the late 1960s when a pretty athlete named Elena was plucked from Czechoslovakia for an elite spy program. Review | In the era of countless Trump exposés, do we really need a new ‘Primary Colors’? 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z We were there for the debut screening of the documentary “Olga,” about Vaclav Havel’s wife, the last first lady of Czechoslovakia and the first first lady of the Czech Republic. At the Prague Marathon, History Is a Spectator 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z In 1968, after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, she fled to Britain and then emigrated to the United States. Heda Kovaly, Czech Who Wrote of Totalitarianism, Is Dead at 91 2010-12-09T05:29:00Z After the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in August 1968 and a cultural crackdown followed, Passer and Forman fled Prague the following January. Ivan Passer, a leading Czech New Wave filmmaker, dies at 86 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Saying he was inspired by Vaclav Havel, the playwright who became president of Czechoslovakia, he ran for Congress in 1990. Ralph Waite, Patriarch in TV Series ‘The Waltons,’ Dies at 85 2014-02-14T06:00:50Z Their enterprise, spearheaded by a TWA engineer with all the intrigue of a spy novel, involved the purchase of planes in Czechoslovakia and California, money transfers in Manhattan and a fake Panamanian airline. 'Above and Beyond' soars with true adventure 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z In 1920 Poland introduced stricter passport controls; Czechoslovakia sought to lure back expatriates to boost the national stock. Backwards and forwards 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z After the war the Ickovics returned to Czechoslovakia, where Eugene opened a pharmaceutical factory in Karlovy Vary, before emigrating to Bogotá, Colombia, where he opened several factories and the family grew wealthy. Paul Ickovic, Photographer at Home on the Street, Dies at 79 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z To Mr. Szczygiel’s credit, his gaze is just as unsparing once Czechoslovakia splits apart, and the successor Czech Republic eagerly embraces capitalism. Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z They’d managed to flee Czechoslovakia ahead of the Nazis, and had spent years in Singapore and in India. ‘Tom Stoppard’ Tells of an Enormous Life Spent in Constant Motion 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z But with the liberalization of the Prague Spring uprising of 1968 overturned by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia that year, she was barred from making films for nearly a decade. Vera Chytilova Dies at 85; Made Daring Czech Films 2014-03-23T02:16:56Z Starting in the 1970s, he brought country music to Russia and Czechoslovakia and recorded the first country album in Eastern Europe. Opry star George Hamilton IV, known for ‘Abilene,’ ‘Early Morning Rain,’ dies at 77 This is Czechoslovakia, 1989, and toadies of the old order are scrambling to ingratiate themselves with the new. ‘The Velvet Oratorio,’ at Bohemian National Hall 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Ties are particularly close with Charter 97, a pro-democracy initiative similar to the one founded in Czechoslovakia by the playwright Vaclav Havel and others when that country was under totalitarian rule. Theater Group in Belarus Is Forced Underground 2010-12-22T04:00:02Z She arrived in Czechoslovakia in 1968 two weeks after Soviet tanks rolled in to crush the Prague Spring. ‘Everything . . . had sexual connotations’: Being young, female and a reporter in the 1960s 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z “My father started making jeans in the ’70s for his friends,” Mr. Pisch said of his father’s life in Communist Czechoslovakia, “because Western jeans cost a month’s wages.” Heads Up: A Jersey Shore Rebound 2012-06-15T18:42:22Z Whatever difficulties Czechoslovakia then faced, it was the only parliamentary democracy in Eastern Europe. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z "One was a ski instructor from Italy who taught my wife," says Norman Clarke, author of Kiandra — Gold Fields to Ski Fields, "and there were quite a few from Czechoslovakia and Germany." The Long Run: Australia's Storied Ski Heaven 2011-08-25T12:20:00Z Kral had already been filming his musician friends, largely because he feared deportation back to Czechoslovakia and wanted his memories preserved. His Film Is a Punk Classic, but the Credits Now Roll Without Him 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z That summer, he went to an international camp, where he met students from Czechoslovakia and began listening to the Beatles. Life in the 'hairy underground': the lost history of Soviet hippies 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z But radio is unmatched when it comes to capturing moments from history: a 1938 report from newly occupied Czechoslovakia, pointing to "swastikas and fairy lights" says more than any historian. Celebrating 90 years on air: the best moments of speech radio 2012-11-13T11:12:21Z He covered the Prague Spring, in 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the Dubček reforms, and his pictures of the armed, hard-faced occupiers singing and dancing in Prague spoke for themselves. Priya Ramrakha’s Brief, Heroic Life as a Conflict Photographer, in Africa and Beyond 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Douglas finds the governments of nations covered under the agreement — Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary — guilty of "wholesale violations of human rights." Nothing 'Orderly and Humane' about this chapter of WWII history 2012-07-25T21:47:13Z His voice has a music that isn’t quite English — born in Czechoslovakia, he spent his early childhood in Singapore and India — and his conversation is effortless, enthralling. Tom Stoppard, Always Tackling ‘The Hard Problem’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z She never lived in Czechoslovakia, though her maiden name, Benes, is famous there. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union disintegrated alongside their parents’ marriage. Eric and Don have the Trump name, the money, the genes. Here’s what makes them different. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In your scene, Secretary Albright, you talk about the dangers of nationalism and your experiences growing up under a fascist government in World War II era Czechoslovakia. Téa Leoni and Madeleine Albright Discuss ‘Madam Secretary,’ Fact and Fiction 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Whether kolaches hail from Moravia, Czechoslovakia, or Poland, or whether they became something unique when they traveled to Texas, Wisconsin or Minnesota, I really can’t say. All hail kolaches, the buns of Texas (and beyond). Here’s why you want to make them at home. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Reitman was born, also in Czechoslovakia, in the aftermath of World War II. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Soviet tanks rumbled into Prague in 1968 even as a dark comedy about the spread of Nazi ideology in occupied Czechoslovakia was in production. ‘The Cremator’: Satire, Horror and an Impending Holocaust 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z In 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and his wife, Martha, were asked by leaders of their church to travel to Czechoslovakia, where they would help Jews, dissidents and others flee persecution by the Nazis. Review: ‘Defying the Nazis’: An American Couple on a Rescue Mission 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z He soon returned to his hometown in Czechoslovakia to learn that only about 30 people from the 100 Jewish families there survived - including his brother, whose whereabouts at the time were unknown. Book of horrors: Nazi camp survivors in U.S. recall Auschwitz 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z The Chinese interludes, along with amateur film from Czechoslovakia, punctuate a main narrative devoted to the “events of May” in France. Review: ‘In the Intense Now’ Revisits the Drama of 1968 in France and Beyond 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The captivating ecclesiastical drama “Servants,” set in 1980s Czechoslovakia, follows teenage matriculates at a Christian seminary who awaken to a grim reality. ‘Servants’ Review: Fighting for Purity of Faith 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It is impossible to overstate the importance of music in Czechoslovakia between the wars, and the effervescence of culture in the Bohemian capital. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z After college, he spent a year out West indulging his love of hunting and fishing, which he learned from his mother’s father during the summers he would spend with his grandparents in Czechoslovakia. Donald Trump Jr. and the future of Trumpism: He upended expectations four years ago. What is he now? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z She then served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the administration of the first President George Bush. Shirley Temple, iconic child star, dies at 85 2014-02-11T16:39:54Z When the artifacts were returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II, there were 15 objects missing. Renaissance Shield With an Afterlife in World Wars Is Returning to Europe 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Now in its 60th year, the New York Film Festival has managed to outlive Czechoslovakia and most of the old Hollywood companies that once largely dictated the audience’s ideas about cinema. In 60th Year, New York Film Festival Stays True to Its Mission 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Havel left office in 2003, 10 years after Czechoslovakia broke up and just months before both nations joined the European Union. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z The images of Soviet tanks rolling into the streets of Prague, Czechoslovakia, in August 1968 is a chilling Cold War memory that now seems like a bad dream. ‘Burning Bush’ captures fallout of 1 student’s ultimate sacrifice 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z “Everyone leaves home one way or another. I am unique in my field because I was born in Czechoslovakia, which doesn’t exist anymore.” A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Both those films were directed by Milos Forman, who was also from Czechoslovakia. Jan Triska, Czech-American Actor Seen in ‘Ragtime,’ Dies at 80 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s 1938, and the husband, who works in the British Foreign Service, tells his wife that Hitler is threatening to invade Czechoslovakia, and if that happens Britain and France will be obliged to respond militarily. ‘Munich: The Edge of War’ Review: ‘Well Navigated, Sir’ (Not!) 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z After the rise of the Nazis, he left Czechoslovakia for England, where, like many Jews, he sought asylum for his family. Visit Restored Adolf Loos Interiors in Pilsen, Czech Republic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z She became a Republican fundraiser, an Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia and — after surgery for breast cancer — was one of the first celebrities who publicized her experience to promote awareness of the disease. Shirley Temple: A Cute Cocktail of Talent and Charm 2014-02-12T16:13:08Z Hamilton became the first country musician to perform in the the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia; he made his first visit to the UK in 1967. Country musician Hamilton dies at 77 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Because there were certain assumptions I always made about Czechoslovakia under communism, and I'm now wondering whether those assumptions were actually true. The battle for a free Belarus 2011-04-03T23:05:00Z She fell out of favour with Ronald Reagan, with whom she had once appeared in a film called That Hagen Girl, but his successor, George HW Bush, appointed her ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T12:58:42Z “Daisies” was shelved, briefly released and then, after the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, banned again. ‘Daisies’: Two Wild and Crazy Gals 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z “In your 20s, you say, ‘What the hell, let’s go start a war in Czechoslovakia. Ivan Reitman, Director of ‘Ghostbusters,’ Is Dead at 75 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Kurt Klein when American soldiers liberated her and others from an abandoned bicycle factory in Volary, Czechoslovakia, on May 7, 1945, the eve of her 21st birthday. Holocaust survivor, author Gerda Weissmann Klein dies at 97 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In the next three decades, there were revolts in Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation It fell in Czechoslovakia that November, in Romania that December, and in East Germany, Bulgaria and Hungary the following year. This Hill staffer (maybe) saved the free world. But all he wants is a career in theater. 2017-07-18T04:00:00Z After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, Anka fled again with her second husband – to arrive as a refugee, "happy and lucky, in Cardiff". Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z But as events in Europe escalated Germany's invasions of Austria, the Sudetenland, and Czechoslovakia — Lindbergh decided to return to the United States instead. Charles Lindbergh's unapologetic bigotry: How he became the face of the America First Committee 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z It's a remarkable story, of infant limousine tours round Czechoslovakia, watching Alexander Nevsky at the Unity Theatre while his classmates queued to see Bambi, and arguments over breakfast about bureaucratic capitalism. Alexei Sayle: How?Stalin stole my?childhood 2011-08-11T20:00:02Z It was around that time that he met Kral, a film buff and rock and roller whose family had fled Soviet Czechoslovakia. His Film Is a Punk Classic, but the Credits Now Roll Without Him 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z COX Stoppard is devoted to ideas, like rock ’n’ roll changing Communism in Czechoslovakia, and you think, that’s fine, that’s a big notion. Just the Guys, Candid and Rugged 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z In fact, that career — which included a diplomatic career in Ghana and, starting in 1989, in what was then Czechoslovakia — was longer than her career as an actress. Ambassador Shirley Temple: Stories From the Crucial Role the Actress Played in Global Politics 2014-02-13T15:00:10Z Their sound was bastardized jazz and a blend of folk music from their diverse backgrounds: Hungary, Czechoslovakia and elsewhere, including the United States. At the Bauhaus, Music Was More Than a Hobby 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z As Moorhouse recounts, Britain and France were forced to abandon appeasement that March, after Germany occupied and dismembered Czechoslovakia. Remembering Poland’s Doomed Fight Against the Nazis 2020-08-14T04:00:00Z She grew up Bruntál in what was then Czechoslovakia, and identifies as Moravian rather than Czech. Iva Bittová: 'My intuition works very well' I Alex Needham 2013-03-14T07:09:14Z When the Soviet Union and its allies invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, WRI sent small international teams to stage protests in Moscow, Budapest, Sofia and Warsaw. Devi Prasad obituary 2011-08-09T17:54:33Z “For us socialism means more freedom, or it doesn’t mean anything at all,” he wrote in a 1968 op-ed criticizing the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Famous in Italy, Rodari Reaches U.S. Shores With ‘Telephone Tales’ 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Ceija and her mother walked across Germany and Czechoslovakia to Vienna. The Survivor of Auschwitz Who Painted a Forgotten Genocide 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z The emergence of a cinematic new wave in Communist Czechoslovakia was among the major film stories of the late ’60s. ‘Daisies’: Two Wild and Crazy Gals 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Born Tomas Straussler in a small town in Czechoslovakia in 1937, he grew up largely in Britain, taking the name of Stoppard from the Englishman his mother married after his father’s death. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z He spoke of some of the best minds of Czechoslovakia being forbidden to write, travel or even drive, and forced to work at "menial jobs" such as selling cigarettes and washing windows. Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award 2013-05-01T04:54:14Z Jerome Mahrer was born in New York in 1929; his father, Paul, a soccer star on Czechoslovakia’s Olympic team, had been playing for American leagues. Sketches From a P.O.W. Camp That Held African-Americans and Others 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z This horror thriller by the Scottish novelist Russell is set in 1935 Czechoslovakia, where a psychiatrist pursues an experimental treatment on six patients, all notorious killers. New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’ 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z In 1937, accompanied by his wife and child, he fled Czechoslovakia after his paintings were daubed with swastikas. What can art teach us about breast-feeding? 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z The two leaders met to discuss Hitler’s demands that the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia be handed over to Germany. Review | The anti-Hitler resistance has one chance to avoid war in Robert Harris’s ‘Munich’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Then the show migrates to Poland and Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria, then Germany and the Netherlands. The Artists Who Redesigned a War-Shattered Europe 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z One of the strategies of occupied Czechoslovakia was in fact laughter. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Even by European standards, Zakarpattia’s back story is rather remarkable: once part of Austria-Hungary, it became part of independent Czechoslovakia after World War I, then part of Ukraine and the U.S.S.R. after World War II. Explorer: In Ukraine, Churches With a Distinctive Allure 2011-07-15T16:00:00Z Mr. Szczygiel’s larger point, of course, is that Czechoslovakia was also a kind of Gottland, full of people justifying the accommodations to evil they made so as not to become its victim themselves. Mariusz Szczygiel’s ‘Gottland’ Sees a Surreal Czechoslovakia 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z She then served as ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the administration of the first President Bush. Shirley Temple, Iconic Child Star, Dies at 85 2014-02-11T11:24:36Z Havel first made a name for himself after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion that crushed the Prague Spring reforms of Alexander Dubcek and other liberally minded communists in what was then Czechoslovakia. Vaclav Havel dead at 75 2011-12-18T11:49:00Z “I did put a lot of responsibility on her because that is what people did with children in the former Czechoslovakia. It was not all the coddling and psychological analyzing.” Paulina Porizkova, Full-Frontal Emotion 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z And this gift, combined with his sure sense of time and place, makes the worlds that Poxl traverses in Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands and England jump into focus. Review: ‘The Last Flight of Poxl West’ by Daniel Torday 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The government, after displaying the collection in a few politically unstable countries, including Cuba and Czechoslovakia, auctioned the paintings in their original frames for drastically less than their value. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z He originally started writing “Leaving” in the late ’80s only to put it aside to lead the Velvet Revolution, which toppled Communism in Czechoslovakia. In Transit: Vaclav Havel's New Role: Film Director 2011-03-23T10:00:21Z “The very fate of civilization is at stake,” said House Speaker Joseph Martin, a Republican, after the February 1948 Soviet coup d’état in Czechoslovakia. Why American Pragmatists Saved Postwar Europe 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Unlike many other Czechs, he was free to travel in that job; he eventually made his way to Los Angeles, where he decided in 1982 against going back to Czechoslovakia. Career soars ever higher for children's-book creator Peter Sis 2012-04-27T22:50:29Z You can’t help wondering what his evolution would have been like if he had stayed, or stayed longer, in Czechoslovakia. ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Topol was among the youngest signatories of Charter 77, a dissident document released in 1977 that called on Czechoslovakia’s Communist government to respect human rights. Filip Topol, Rock Musician of Czech Revolution, Dies at 48 2013-06-26T03:31:05Z The graphic flexibility also gives Hendrix the opportunity to use maps to explain Hitler’s military strategy: the feint that toppled France, for example, or Hitler’s plans to annex Austria and Czechoslovakia. A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Open, when she was 18, Navratilova defected to the United States from her native Czechoslovakia, which was then under Soviet control. Martina Navratilova and Julia Lemigova are married 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z When Paulina was 7, her mother made a LeCarré-esque attempt to abduct her from the clutches of the communist government, flying back to Czechoslovakia with the intent of sneaking back onto a charter plane. Paulina Porizkova, Full-Frontal Emotion 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z The rapper was born in 1986 in communist Lithuania, but her family moved to what was then Czechoslovakia when she was a toddler. She Raps and Sweden Listens 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Given the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, it's hard to be sympathetic — then or now — to the ethnic Germans expelled from Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary and other nations. Nothing 'Orderly and Humane' about this chapter of WWII history 2012-07-25T21:47:13Z Enter the incomparable Sís, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Czechoslovakia before coming to America in 1982. A Captivating New Picture Book Celebrates the ‘British Schindler’ 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z In sometimes gritty detail, Porizkova shares her early experiences as a displaced child of war from Czechoslovakia, which included being separated from her parents and growing up in a rather fast fashion. “What's wrong with being 57?”: Supermodel Paulina Porizkova questions the value of youth in beauty 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Born in 1936, Havel came of age in Czechoslovakia, whose Communist rulers repeatedly imprisoned and continuously surveilled him while suppressing many of his writings. Václav Havel’s Lessons on How to Create a “Parallel Polis” 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z He flew to Czechoslovakia on a fake Malaysian passport but was deported to Bangkok. For Its Star, ‘Dheepan’ Was the Role of His Lifetime 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Voznesensky traveled the world to read his poetry, serving as a sort of unofficial Kremlin cultural envoy, even though he was a critic of rough-handed Soviet policies like the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z Today, Mr. Gott garners appreciation from all generations while also serving as a source of nostalgia for those who lived under communism in Czechoslovakia, where he made his name. Communist-Era Crooner and Far-Right Metal Band Share a Spotlight 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z The plaza also features a sapling from a silver maple tree that was planted and cared for by children in the Theresienstadt camp in the former Czechoslovakia before many of them were killed at Auschwitz. A Holocaust Memorial Expands in Philadelphia 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Born in 1950 in Brno, Czechoslovakia, Sis was the son of a filmmaker father and an artist mother. Career soars ever higher for children's-book creator Peter Sis 2012-04-27T22:50:29Z It's a place where spook spies on fellow spook, and trust is as much a casualty as the agent shot in Czechoslovakia at the start. Your next box set: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 2011-01-14T08:00:04Z In 1954, when what was then Czechoslovakia was under Communist control, he was working in a movie studio when party bosses commissioned a cartoon to teach children about how trousers are made. Zdenek Miler, Creator of Krtek the Mole, Dies at 90 2011-12-03T06:25:24Z Because the piece is critical of the Soviet Union, and because his parents were still alive and living in Czechoslovakia, he thought it best to use a pseudonym—“K. Siva.” The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z "I was laid aside, like Czechoslovakia" contains a powerful comparison, all the more chilling for the understatement of "laid aside". Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z Vaclav Havel, the playwright and former president of Czechoslovakia, once called Szymborska "such a pleasant, decent and modest lady." Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z The "Prague Spring", a blossoming of liberalisation born in Czechoslovakia in January 1968, was crushed by the tanks of Soviet bloc that August. Hair, restored 2010-04-14T08:34:00Z Dachau, Hitler’s bathtub, the 1968 Soviet crackdown in Czechoslovakia, the crowds of the Arab Spring in Tahrir Square are alluded to. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z Yet it was also where, famously and surreally, the remarkable musical and theatrical life of Czechoslovakia was permitted, defiantly, to thrive; where great music was composed and performed by those condemned. Terezín: the Nazi camp where music played amid the horror 2013-04-05T16:41:48Z In Czechoslovakia, the underground was being inspired by dark dissonance in the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z Ms. Kimbrell began her acting career as a teenager in what was then Czechoslovakia, with the Chamber Theater in Prague. Marketa Kimbrell Dies at 82; Brought Theater to the Forgotten 2011-07-14T01:01:42Z France and Czechoslovakia regained land taken by the Germans. Europe: 100 years of war and transformation Their first memories are not of Fifth Avenue but of Czechoslovakia. Eric and Don have the Trump name, the money, the genes. Here’s what makes them different. 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z ARLES, France — In communist Czechoslovakia, it paid to conform. Their Bodies Were Weapons: Dissident Photographers of the 1980s 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Wojtek attended a girls’ school in Salzburg before studying at a vocational school in Czechoslovakia and then at the Kunstgewerbeschule, or Arts Vocational School, in Vienna, where her professors included the design luminary Josef Hoffmann. The Thorny History of the Salzburg Festival’s Logo 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z She fled Hitler in 1939 through illegal transport to Palestine from Czechoslovakia. Sex, jeeps and laughter: 92-year-old Holocaust survivor offers advice on aging 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Having allowed his passport to lapse in 1949 — by some accounts in deliberate defiance of Czechoslovakia’s Communist government — Mr. Husa accepted a post at Cornell and emigrated to the United States in 1954. Karel Husa, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 95 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Hitler annexed all the country’s German-speaking areas, known as the Sudetenland, in the spring of 1938, before invading Czechoslovakia the following year. Bohemia’s Secret Spot for Cross-Country Skiing 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z When Hartmann obtains a secret memorandum outlining Hitler’s plans to seize all of Czechoslovakia and much of Europe, he alerts his fellow Oxonian through an intermediary. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z But I would always be interested in someone from, say, Czechoslovakia coming and spending a couple of months here, and giving their impressions. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z When outside Czechoslovakia, they were not paid their salaries. Antonín Kohout 2013-02-26T18:12:07Z As Hitler and Chamberlain, joined by their Italian and French counterparts, gather to seal the fate of Czechoslovakia, Legat stumbles into two Czech diplomats being held captive by the SS in their hotel room. The Plot to Kill Hitler 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z On Tuesday night Mr. Stoppard, who was born in Czechoslovakia, was the main speaker at a protest demonstration outside the Belarussian Embassy in London. Theater Group in Belarus Is Forced Underground 2010-12-22T04:00:02Z He played for a spell with Iggy Pop and in other bands, and later nurtured a solo career in Czechoslovakia, but would never regain the career high he’d had with Smith. His Film Is a Punk Classic, but the Credits Now Roll Without Him 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z He was born Sept 27, 1924 in Nachod in northern Czechoslovakia, and went on to write novels, such as "The Engineer of Human Souls," that humorously captured the absurdity of the totalitarian regime. Czech author Josef Skvorecky dies at 87 2012-01-03T17:56:07Z It was one of the few times that Spanish was spoken because my dad was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia and and my mom was born in Orocoves in Puerto Rico . Pasteles, a Puerto Rican Tradition, Have a Special Savor Now 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z After the war, Czechoslovakia became a Soviet satellite. From "Meatballs" to "Ghostbusters," Ivan Reitman was the anarchic boomer voice for Gen X nihilism 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z She beckoned to another employee, not yet out of her teens, who, in Oxford-accented English, explained that Mikulov had been a German-speaking city in Czechoslovakia before the war. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z Havel was a dissident playwright who led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that toppled four decades of communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia before becoming the Czech Republic's first president. Czechs remember late president Vaclav Havel 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Like many of the German-speaking families in Czechoslovakia, the Dietrichsteins and the Liechtensteins, who had lived in the region for centuries, were expelled from the Czech lands after World War II. In the Czech Republic, Moravia and Its Castles 2011-09-23T18:55:00Z Born in Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia, Hauser was sent to a psychiatric institution when he was still a teenager, and he never learned to read or write. Celebrating Self-Taught Artists at a Center in Austria 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The movie was banned in Czechoslovakia and did not see the light of day until 1990, when it won the Golden Bear at the Berlin film festival. Jiří Menzel: a daring, defiant beacon of European cinema 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z Abroad, “Emissary of No Return” won Best Director in 1984 at a film festival in former Czechoslovakia. Loan-star state 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Perhaps it also hints at the gentler events of the 1990s, when Czechoslovakia was dissolved into two separate states. Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z In 1941, the Nazis established the notorious camp at Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia, which was used to further claims that Jews were simply being “resettled in the East.” The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z A grandfather, conservatory trained in Czechoslovakia, settled in Hollywood as an orchestrator for Universal Studios. Gene Schiller, Music Director for Hawaii Public Radio 2012-06-24T01:23:03Z She was born in the former Czechoslovakia, and her family relocated to the United States in 1948. Library of Congress National Book Festival: Main Stage schedule 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z A native of the former Czechoslovakia, Valko was trained as a mechanical engineer, but like so many immigrants to America, he gravitated toward restaurants once he arrived on U.S. shores in 1990. Dal Grano review: The fresh new face of pasta in McLean 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z She fell out of favour with Ronald Reagan, with whom she had once appeared in a film called, That Hagen Girl, but his successor, George Bush Snr, appointed her Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Obituary: Shirley Temple 2014-02-11T10:31:05Z It was richer than the versions from the former Czechoslovakia, and smokier and more oniony than most versions in modern Hungary. 2010-01-23T05:45:00Z On Aug. 20, 1968, Warsaw Pact troops led by the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, putting a violent end to the reformist socialist experiment known as the Prague Spring. ‘Burning Bush,’ an Agnieszka Holland Film on Communism 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z “When I was about 30, people were writing about me being from Czechoslovakia, and so on,” he recalled. Tom Stoppard Finally Looks Into His Shadow 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z He was cited for such novels as "Portnoy's Complaint" and "American Pastoral," but also for his advocacy in the 1970s and 1980s for writers in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern bloc countries during the Cold War. Philip Roth receives 'Literary Service' award 2013-05-01T04:54:14Z Born in Czechoslovakia to Jewish parents, Stoppard and his family left suddenly for Singapore before the arrival of the Nazis, moved to India and finally settled in England after his mother remarried. 13 New Books to Watch For in February 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Havel, whose early plays were influential in shaping the cultural resistance to the totalitarian government of Czechoslovakia, surely isn’t contemplating any such permanent relinquishing of the dramatic form. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z And his father, who was part of Lord Asquith’s cabinet before the first world war, survived the declining fortunes of the Liberal party to lead the doomed mission to Czechoslovakia in 1938. Shades of Byzantium 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Patch had survived Foreign Service duty in early Cold War flash points such as Manchuria and Czechoslovakia. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies The Czech Republic and Slovakia went their separate ways in 1993, but 2018 marks the 100th year of their union in the aftermath of World War I as Czechoslovakia. Where to Celebrate a Centennial (or 3) in 2018 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z After World War I, the castle and its collections became the property of the newly formed government of Czechoslovakia. Renaissance Shield With an Afterlife in World Wars Is Returning to Europe 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Tom Stoppard was born Tomáš Sträussler, in Czechoslovakia, receiving his new last name just as Leo does, from an English stepfather. Review: In Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt,’ a Memorial to a Lost World 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z After the war the Gottliebs ran a raincoat factory in Czechoslovakia, then emigrated to Haifa, Israel, in 1949, with virtually no money. Leah Gottlieb, a Designer of Swimsuits, Dies at 94 2012-11-20T23:23:01Z The United States would share a group with hosts Italy, who had won the World Cup seven years before, and two solid European sides in Czechoslovakia and Austria. Bags of urine, cans of Bud and the team that saved US soccer 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Ron knew his mother, Katarina, also from a small town in Czechoslovakia, was a Holocaust survivor, too. Column: Holocaust survivors' son, a pro hockey agent, tries to keep their memory alive 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z "One of my greatest ever evenings was when we qualified against Czechoslovakia in 1973, it would have been great if the young folk had experienced that the way I did." Tartan Army looks forward to Euro 2024 as Scotland qualifies 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z The small Central European nation created in 1993 following the breakup of Czechoslovakia has been a staunch supporter of Ukraine since Russia invaded more than 18 months ago. As Slovakia’s trust in democracy fades, its election frontrunner campaigns against aid to Ukraine 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong. Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Before their first game, against Czechoslovakia, Gansler ratcheted up the training intensity. Bags of urine, cans of Bud and the team that saved US soccer 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z German speakers in what became Czechoslovakia had never been German subjects. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z Entitled One Life, the movie will tell of how Sir Nicholas, a London stockbroker who was knighted for his humanitarian accomplishments in 2003, helped get young Jewish refugees out of occupied Czechoslovakia in 1938. Sir Anthony Hopkins to play Nicholas Winton in One Life 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z Writing in the former Czechoslovakia and later in France, where he had lived in reclusive exile since 1975 and adopted French as his primary language, Kundera crafted slippery and elliptical stories, plays, essays and novels. This week’s passages 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Mr Putin's comments about the Soviet Union's actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia appear to contradict the views of some within his inner circle. Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z After the United States looked lively and dangerous for the opening 20 minutes, Czechoslovakia realised how naive their opposition's tactics were - reliant on man-marking - and pulled them all out of position. Bags of urine, cans of Bud and the team that saved US soccer 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z If the Allies had actually enforced the treaty, maintained a tolerable state of military readiness, and concluded mutual assistance agreements with Czechoslovakia and Poland, the most cataclysmic war in history might have been averted. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z He was a towering figure in Czech literature but his scathing criticism of Czechoslovakia's communist regime saw him flee for France in 1975. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies aged 94 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z So after the Communists were swept from power as part of the Velvet Revolution, she and three other women flew to Czechoslovakia to find one of the ordained, identified as Ludmila Javorová. Ruth Fitzpatrick, Crusader for Letting Women Be Priests, Dies at 90 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z The Soviet Union was made up of 15 countries but counted several more satellite states, including Hungary and Czechoslovakia, within its sphere of influence. Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z We meet Lenin through Armando, the building manager, himself an immigrant from Cuba, and then through another apartment dweller, Ana Kralova, an immigrant from what was then Czechoslovakia. A Miami apartment comes to life — literally — in Ana Menéndez's history-rich novel 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z She became Slovakia’s fifth president since the country gained independence after the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993. Slovakia’s first female president won’t seek reelection next year 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z His first novel The Joke - a black comedy published in 1967 - led to a ban on his writing in Czechoslovakia. Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies aged 94 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z He and his old friend Jaenecke played alongside each other in a league of 10-12 teams, including sides from Czechoslovakia and Austria. Surviving Hitler - the Jewish star who shone amid Berlin's ruins 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z After the Germans dismantled Czechoslovakia, the family fled to Poland, hoping to immigrate to Britain, but were trapped when war broke out and they were herded into a ghetto in Kielce. Thomas Buergenthal, Holocaust Survivor and Judge, Dies at 89 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Simultaneously, the Austrian Empire collapsed, with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the new Balkan nation of Yugoslavia all becoming independent countries and Austria a short-lived republic. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z In the ensuing weeks, German troops entered the relinquished areas, and by the spring of 1939, Germany had gone on to absorb the rest of Czechoslovakia. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z At one point some of the prisoners - those who came from countries like Poland or Czechoslovakia - were separated from the rest. French Resistance man breaks silence over German prisoners executed in 1944 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z There, he intercepted hints that the Soviet Union was about to invade Czechoslovakia — an intelligence coup that a skittish senior officer filed away without forwarding it urgently. Mike Pride, Who Proved a Regional Newspaper Could Work, Dies at 76 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The document was a rare expression of resistance to the hard-line communist regime that took over after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia which crushed the liberal reform period known as the Prague Spring. Dana Nemcova, leading Czech anti-communist, dies at 89 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In September of 1938, the threat of German intervention in the Sudetenland, a region of northwestern Czechoslovakia with a significant German minority, prompted an international crisis. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Czechoslovakia supplied the arms, and the Soviet Union later funded the construction of the dam. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z By contrast, the scenes of the teenage Adéla helping to produce samizdat in communist Czechoslovakia feel lived in and significant. Review | Jaroslav Kalfar’s new novel asks: Do we really want to live forever? 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z In 1938, Neville Chamberlain expressed similar thinking about Adolf Hitler’s “dispute” with Czechoslovakia: “A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” Opinion | With the Silicon Valley Bank rescue, welcome to capitalism without risk 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z And it has been heartwarming to see the burgeoning growth of baseball programs in Czechoslovakia, Italy, Great Britain and Israel. Why ex-Mariner Edwin Diaz’s injury shouldn’t sideline the World Baseball Classic 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Then, in early 1939, German troops simply occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Other lands went to Lithuania and the new country of Czechoslovakia. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Jakubisko died shortly before midnight on Friday in the Czech capital, Prague, where he had lived with his family since the 1993 split of Czechoslovakia, his daughter Janette told Slovak public radio and television. Slovak movie director Juraj Jakubisko dies at 84 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z 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. Lubomir Strougal, Moscow’s Cold War ally in Czechoslovakia, dies at 98 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z In one famous case, in August 1968, eight demonstrators took to Moscow’s Red Square to protest the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in order to suppress the Prague Spring. Opinion | They clicked once. Then came the dark prisons. During Brezhnev’s tenure as the Soviet premier, another eastern bloc nation tried unsuccessfully to break away from Soviet domination: Czechoslovakia. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z What was the territory Hitler wanted from Czechoslovakia? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z All those films were banned by the hard-line communist regime that was established following the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed a period of liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. Slovak movie director Juraj Jakubisko dies at 84 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z As prime minister, Mr. Strougal was often the country’s public face in international affairs and made overtures for greater Cold War-era trade with the West even as Czechoslovakia’s regime remained a classic Soviet client state. Lubomir Strougal, Moscow’s Cold War ally in Czechoslovakia, dies at 98 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Still another British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, “notoriously referred to Hitler’s demands on Czechoslovakia in 1938 as ‘a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.’” Review | Ignorance is not always bliss — and not always bad — a new book argues 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Protest movements spread across Germany and the rapidly-collapsing Austro-Hungarian empire, as nationalist movements declared independence in Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Balkans. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Tensions flared in Europe yet again in 1968 when Czechoslovakia, like Poland and Hungary before it, sought to loosen its ties to the Soviet Union. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Until 1971, Radio Free Europe was a covert U.S. intelligence operation seeking to penetrate the Iron Curtain and foment anti-communist dissent in what was then Czechoslovakia, in Poland and elsewhere. Russia’s War Breathes New Life Into a Cold War Symbol 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Massive street protests in 1989, set in motion by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, ended full Communist Party control in Czechoslovakia and brought to power Havel, a leader of the Velvet Revolution. Lubomir Strougal, Moscow’s Cold War ally in Czechoslovakia, dies at 98 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z In the nine referendums since Slovakia gained independence in 1993 after the split of Czechoslovakia, only the referendum on the country’s entry into the European Union in 2003 met the condition of 50% turnout. Slovak vote on early election not binding due to low turnout 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Last year’s comments from Kissinger drew a retort from Zelenskyy that it was tantamount to European powers in 1938 letting Nazi Germany claim parts of Czechoslovakia to curb Adolf Hitler’s aggression. Live updates | World Economic Forum gathering in Davos 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Rebellions in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia were quickly crushed by the USSR. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z It was not that long ago that sport and politics here were very closely connected, and Vymetalikova wrote her dissertation on how that link played out in the early years of Czechoslovakia's communist dictatorship. Czech presidential vote: All to play for after 10 years of Zeman 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Filip, who lives 500m from the rowing club with his Slovak wife and two children, was just 11 when Czechoslovakia divided into two. Czechoslovakia: Czechs and Slovaks mark 30 years since Velvet Divorce 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Soviet tanks rolled into another neighboring country in 1968 to crush the “Prague Spring” — a brief period of liberalization in Communist Czechoslovakia. 100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The first came in Brazil's opening group game against Czechoslovakia when Pele, from several yards inside the centre circle in his own half, received the ball languidly then spotted keeper Ivo Viktor off his line. 'The best player in the history of football' 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Why did no country come to the aid of Czechoslovakia when it was threatened by Germany? World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Stalin used wartime conferences to demand a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, eventually drawing Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and East Germany behind the “Iron Curtain.” Fallen colossus: USSR’s terror, triumphs began 100 years ago 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Perhaps more intense than in 1992 - when Czechoslovakia was divvied up quietly by the federal state's two prime ministers, with no referendum. Czechoslovakia: Czechs and Slovaks mark 30 years since Velvet Divorce 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet there were reports of previous secret 'ordinations', such as Ludmila Javarova's, who during the Communist rule of Czechoslovakia in the 1970s took part in a service led by a Roman Catholic bishop. Excommunicated: The women fighting to be priests 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z A Czech arts collector, patron and historian who was an impassioned promoter of Frantisek Kupka and supported artists in communist Czechoslovakia while she was in exile behind the Iron Curtain. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z The splintering of Europe that Churchill described deepened in 1948, when a government composed of both communists and non-communists in Czechoslovakia was toppled and replaced by an all-communist government loyal to Moscow. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z "Not many people in the Rhondda Valley had heard about Czechoslovakia," she said. Aberystwyth: Holocaust refugee meets woman who fled Syrian war 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z I was visiting Czechoslovakia in December 1992, and remember that sense of uncertainty and nervousness. Czechoslovakia: Czechs and Slovaks mark 30 years since Velvet Divorce 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The family tried but failed to send the manuscript abroad by mail in March 1939 during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, drawing the attention of the Gestapo. Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to heirs 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Under Communism, huge factories in Czechoslovakia, the Warsaw Pact's second-largest weapons producer, Poland and elsewhere in the region kept people employed, turning out weapons for Cold War conflicts Moscow stoked around the world. Weapons industry booms as Eastern Europe arms Ukraine 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z People in Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia called for changes in their government as well. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian, sees Ukraine’s struggle as the hinge on which history will turn, just as Czechoslovakia was, unhappily, the hinge in 1938. Opinion | Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In 1989, I had covered the revolutions in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania that signaled the coming collapse of the Soviet Union. Why I write about war — and why I can't escape it 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z However, the Nazis seized most of the Petschek family’s assets and possessions, which Czechoslovakia’s Communist regime nationalized after the war. Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to heirs 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z When it came, their first game against Czechoslovakia at the Estadio Jalisco was a release, not just for the determined Pele but a focused, honed squad and 96 million expectant people back home. How Pele cemented his legend at 1970 World Cup 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z For example, the new country of Czechoslovakia was predominantly composed of Czechs and Slovaks, who did not see themselves as having similar nationalities. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z Appeasement — the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in an attempt to slake Hitler’s appetite for conquest — ordained a dark future. Opinion | Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z It is very similar to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiating with Adolf Hitler for “peace in our time” by giving away part of an allied country, Czechoslovakia. Russia-Ukraine letter: ‘Lack of judgment and leadership’ 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The three Baltic states were once republics in the Soviet Union, while Poland and Czechia — then part of Czechoslovakia — were Moscow’s satellites. Baltic nations close borders to Russians over Ukraine war 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Later that year, as pro-democracy protests swept across the Communist states of Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania, the world held its breath. Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z As the world watched Hitler annex Czechoslovakia and then invade Poland, Roosevelt sought to offer more substantial military assistance to Britain and France. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z No one knows, Snyder says, what would have happened if Czechoslovakia, instead of being sacrificed in 1938, had received material and moral assistance, as Ukraine is given today. Opinion | Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In East Germany, tens of thousands of people, mostly young, were streaming out of the country heading west, mainly through Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Reformist Soviet Leader, Is Dead at 91 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Within months after the announcement of the discovery of fission, Adolf Hitler banned the export of uranium from newly occupied Czechoslovakia. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z With hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops stationed across Eastern Europe, would Moscow turn its tanks on the demonstrators, as it had in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968? Gorbachev ended Cold War but presided over Soviet collapse 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z It was a “listening station” that constantly monitored every movement by the playwright, who would become the last president of Czechoslovakia in 1989 as anti-communist groups took charge. Gerald Nagler, leading human rights activist since Cold War, dies at 92 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z If, however, German forces had been bogged down in Czechoslovakia, “we can be confident that Hitler would not have had the sense of irresistible momentum that gained him allies and frightened his foes.” Opinion | Be thankful for the pugnacious Zelensky’s magnificent resistance to suppression 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Days after the pope’s coronation in 1939, the German dictator showed the world how much the Munich Pact meant to him when he invaded Czechoslovakia and incorporated it into the Reich. Review | The pope who thought he could negotiate with Hitler 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z That marriage allowed her to leave Czechoslovakia, her communist home country, without defecting. Ivana Trump died of blunt impact injuries to torso - NYC medical examiner 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Mrs. Trump, who dubbed her husband “the Donald” during their 13-year marriage, had been a competitive skier in her native Czechoslovakia and later became a model in Canada and New York. Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, dies at 73 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z For Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Czechoslovakia, countries that had gained independence after World War I, there was another dimension to the struggle: Their fight was for autonomy — against whoever compromised it. Review | What drove some to resist Hitler — and others to stay quiet 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Mr Green also discovered his father had taken part in a raid on a Skoda factory in the former Czechoslovakia, which produced tanks for the Germans, prior to his capture. Buckinghamshire WW2 navigator remembered at exhibition 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z She was studying political science in Geneva in 1948 when the communists took over Czechoslovakia. Meda Mladkova, Czech art patron, dies at 102 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z He played 257 games for Czechoslovakia, and was regularly the team’s top scorer. Jiří Zídek, the first Czech in FIBA Hall of Fame, dies at 78 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z She said the marriage was never consummated and soon ended in divorce, but she obtained an Austrian passport, which helped her escape communist Czechoslovakia. Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, dies at 73 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z With a handful of others, Livingston flew out of an airstrip in Czechoslovakia, ferrying arms and wartime fighter jets into Israel. Harold Livingston, pilot and Hollywood screenwriter who helped Israel get on its feet, dies at 97 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Her family fled Czechoslovakia in 1939 as the Nazis took over their country, and she spent the war years in London. World leaders, DC elite to pay tribute to Madeleine Albright 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Mrs Knill had escaped to Hungary from Czechoslovakia earlier in World War Two, but was sent to the camp in 1944. Iby Knill: Leeds Holocaust survivor dies aged 98 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Schindler, an ethnic German who lived in what was then Czechoslovakia, was a member of the Nazi Party. Mimi Reinhard, secretary who typed ‘Schindler’s List,’ dies at 107 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z That in turn set in motion a series of dominoes within the Eastern European countries, with Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania all seeking to escape Soviet dominance and Communist rule. Analysis: War, economy could weaken Putin’s place as leader 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated Mrs. Klein’s estimate of the number of women who survived the 350-mile death march to southern Czechoslovakia. Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor and activist, dies at 97 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Albright was born in what was then Czechoslovakia but her family fled twice, first from the Nazis and then from Soviet rule. World leaders, DC elite to pay tribute to Madeleine Albright 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z They crossed into what was then Czechoslovakia and finally arrived at an abandoned bicycle factory in Volary, near the German border. Gerda Weissmann Klein, honored Holocaust survivor, dies at 97 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Schindler persuaded German officials that the Jewish workers at his enamelware factory near Krakow should be moved to another concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where they were needed to produce munitions. Mimi Reinhard, secretary who typed ‘Schindler’s List,’ dies at 107 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Only about 100 of the 15,000 Jewish children from Czechoslovakia interned in the camps survived the war. Vera Gissing, Who Was Rescued by ‘Britain’s Schindler,’ Dies at 93 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Over a period of weeks, he collected thousands of applications from Jewish families seeking passage for their children out of Czechoslovakia. Vera Gissing, saved from Holocaust in celebrated rescue mission, dies at 93 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z After the empire broke up in World War I, Prague became the capital of Czechoslovakia. Opinion | Madeleine Albright’s guiding insight: The past is never past 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z As a refugee from Czechoslovakia, totalitarianism wasn’t an abstraction. Opinion | Madeleine Albright shaped a generation of foreign policy leaders 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z On the way to Czechoslovakia, Mrs. Reinhard’s train detoured to Auschwitz, where they were detained for two weeks. Mimi Reinhard, secretary who typed ‘Schindler’s List,’ dies at 107 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z She enrolled in a school for Czech refugee children in Shropshire, on the Welsh border, after she audaciously asked Edward Benes, the self-exiled former president of Czechoslovakia, to intervene on her behalf. Vera Gissing, Who Was Rescued by ‘Britain’s Schindler,’ Dies at 93 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z She returned to Czechoslovakia after the war, but not to be greeted by her parents, as she had long hoped. Vera Gissing, saved from Holocaust in celebrated rescue mission, dies at 93 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z In March 1939, soon after the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, the whole family headed back to Yugoslavia and eventually moved to Britain. Balkans split over Madeleine Albright’s wartime legacy 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Wales were dealt a difficult qualifying group alongside Czechoslovakia and East Germany, though they beat Czechoslovakia 1-0 in Cardiff in their opening game. Wales and the 1958 World Cup play-offs 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z In Czechoslovakia, Schindler submitted false reports from his armaments factory to confuse Nazi officials. Mimi Reinhard, secretary who typed ‘Schindler’s List,’ dies at 107 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z And as Hitler broke — as Chamberlain broke his pledge to Czechoslovakia and Jews were in the direst danger, I decided it must be a Czech Jewish child.’” Vera Gissing, Who Was Rescued by ‘Britain’s Schindler,’ Dies at 93 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Winton, who was 29 at the time, had traveled to Czechoslovakia with a friend, who worked with the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia, and who promised Winton a “most interesting assignment.” Vera Gissing, saved from Holocaust in celebrated rescue mission, dies at 93 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z The first came as Nazi troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, and the second came after the family’s postwar repatriation, when Czech Communists with Soviet support overthrew the government of Czechoslovakia in 1948. Madeleine Albright, First Woman to Serve as Secretary of State, Dies at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The family returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II but soon fled again, this time to the United States, after the communists consolidated power and her homeland came into the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence. Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state, dies of cancer at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z They fled to England shortly after Hitler’s tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1938. Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state, dies at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The family returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II, before fleeing again, this time to the United States, in 1948, after the communists rose to power. Albright fled the Nazis, climbed to the summit of diplomacy 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z After the war, the family left London and returned to Czechoslovakia, then in the throes of a communist takeover. Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state and feminist icon, dies at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z She was not in the line of succession for the presidency, however, because she was a native of Czechoslovakia. Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z The Korbel family returned to Czechoslovakia after the war and came to the U.S. as refugees in 1948, her family said. Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state, dies of cancer at 84 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z Weiss grew up in a small town that is now in western Ukraine, but during her childhood was part of Czechoslovakia and then Hungary. For Holocaust survivors from Ukraine, Russian invasion stirs painful memories 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z Hayashi praised ambassadors from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Slovakia for their countries’ support for Ukrainian refugees, and pledged to provide $100 million in humanitarian aid. Live updates: US officers to help screen refugees in Europe 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Embassy in Bonn when Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces invaded the rebellious satellite Czechoslovakia. Opinion | Putin’s Russia can cause a lot of suffering, but it’s not the Soviet Union 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Zakarpattia, where I visited, has a significant Hungarian community, although much of the region was once part of Czechoslovakia, creating bridges to nearby Slovakia and the Czech Republic today. Ukraine’s art and architectural treasures face destruction 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z He picked that number to remember 1968, the year the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to quell the Prague Spring reforms. NHL legend Jaromir Jagr raises money for Ukrainian refugees displaced by Russian invasion 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z In the Czech Republic, where people still recall the trauma of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, recent social media posts have suggested Russian citizens “should be visibly marked, maybe with a red star.” Anti-Russian hate in Europe is making chefs and school children out to be enemies 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z We were extremely careful about direct escalation with the Soviets even when they invaded Hungary or Czechoslovakia or Afghanistan, and the result was a Cold War victory without a nuclear war. Opinion | How to Stop a Nuclear War 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z The Czechoslovakia and Cuba crises and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are completely different matters. Opinion | Putin’s Russia can cause a lot of suffering, but it’s not the Soviet Union 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Unlike democratic Ukraine, Czechoslovakia was a communist satellite in 1968 when the country’s new Communist Party leader, Alexander Dubcek, began promoting “socialism with a human face” and democratic reforms. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z West of Czechoslovakia, no fresh dictator crawled out of a bombsite to fill the vacant boots of Hitler or Mussolini. Mikhail Gorbachev changed history — and then the West paved the way for Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia were all recognized as independent nations. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Meanwhile, in the name of mankind’s hope for peace, I call on the Soviet Union and its associates to withdraw their troops from Czechoslovakia,” Johnson said. Perspective | Now we get to see why our parents fled from the Russians — in real time 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Hall of Fame goaltender Dominik Hasek, who was born and raised in Czechoslovakia and who had nothing but contempt for Ovechkin’s response. LOVERRO: Alex Ovechkin and the day the fun and games ended 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The issue of Vietnam overshadowed Czechoslovakia in the campaign. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z The alliance formed the year after Czechoslovakia fell to the communists and the Soviets blockaded Berlin. Opinion | Why Biden should deliver a European history lesson during the State of the Union 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z He ignored the Yalta agreement and installed or secured Communist governments in Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Poland, and Yugoslavia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Few people could find Czechoslovakia on a map. Perspective | Now we get to see why our parents fled from the Russians — in real time 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Before World War Two that city was part of Czechoslovakia. Ukraine conflict: Children on their own, parents stay behind 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z In late 1989, Czechoslovakia ousted its Communist leaders after the Velvet Revolution of nationwide protests led by such dissidents as playwright Vaclav Havel. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Hitler claimed repeatedly that ethnic Germans in the eastern part of Czechoslovakia were being mistreated and attacked and that the region had to be taken over "to protect Germany." Limited sanctions won't stop Putin in Ukraine: It's time to step up the pressure on Russia 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z On August 20, armed forces from the Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Similar tactics have been used, including by Nazi Germany when it invaded Czechoslovakia under the guise of protecting ethnic Germans living there, Ludes noted. War via TikTok: Russia’s new tool for propaganda machine 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z It is closer to the attack that a bitter, vengeful German leader launched on neighboring Czechoslovakia in 1939. Opinion | Putin’s assault on Ukraine will shape a new world order 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z As a young resistor in Czechoslovakia in 1968, Havel had delivered radio addresses denouncing the Soviet invasion, before the radio station was shut down. When Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, Nixon promised not to ‘embarrass’ LBJ 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z He recounted other crises, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. War in Europe casts the continent into a frightening unknown 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z About three million German-speaking people lived in the western border regions of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Both of their countries are no strangers to Russia’s brutality — the Czech Republic, as part of Czechoslovakia, in 1968, and Hungary in 1956. Former Soviet Bloc countries react to Russian invasion of Ukraine: 'a crime against peace' 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The killings prompted major street protests unseen since the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and a political crisis that led to the government’s collapse. Slovaks unveil monument to slain journalist and his fiancee 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Another “minor incursion” might be paramilitary activity, or a prelude to a traditional invasion reminiscent of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968. Blitzkrieg or Minor Incursion? Putin’s Choice Could Determine World Reaction. 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z He first took up residence in Switzerland and later became a citizen of Czechoslovakia. Review | How Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battle against Hitler 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z In exchange, Hitler pledged to respect Czechoslovakia’s new borders. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Slovakia will play Sweden for bronze, going for its first hockey medal of any kind since the breakup of Czechoslovakia. Winter Olympics 2022: Russia beats Sweden to set up final vs Finland 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Slovakia will play the loser of the other semifinal for the bronze, going for its first hockey medal of any kind since the breakup of Czechoslovakia. Finland makes Olympic final, to face Swedes or Russians 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z It is going for its first hockey medal of any kind since the breakup of Czechoslovakia. Gu’s global coming-out party ends with 3rd Olympic medal 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z The occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939 probably sealed the writer’s decision to move to the United States, when he was in his 60s. Review | How Thomas Mann escaped to America and waged a moral battle against Hitler 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Less than six months after the Munich meeting, Hitler took Czechoslovakia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Reitman was the son of Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust and fled communist Czechoslovakia. Ivan Reitman, director of ‘Ghostbusters,’ dies at 75 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It reminds me much more of Adolf Hitler’s ethno-nationalist fixation, extreme nationalist grievances and “salami” tactics: remilitarization of the Rhineland, Anschluss with Austria, the Sudetenland crisis, occupation of Czechoslovakia’s remains, invasion of Poland. Opinion | History shows the Ukraine crisis won’t end well 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Ester Ledecka, the defending gold medalist in the event from Czechoslovakia who won gold on a snowboard in the parallel slalom earlier this week, placed fifth. After heartbreak, Mikaela Shiffrin finds some satisfaction with ninth in super-G 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z As a teenager in 1989, when the country was still part of Czechoslovakia, he joined classmates in mass demonstrations, known as the Velvet Revolution, that contributed to the fall of the ruling Communist Party. Google Vanquished a Rival in Prague. Payback Could Hurt. 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z After his moves into the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia, Hitler turned his eyes to Poland. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The former Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has long been criticised for describing Germany's attempted annexation of Czechoslovakia in 1938 as "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing". Ukraine crisis: What’s at stake for the UK? 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Worsening matters, Bakovsky absconded with Serge to Czechoslovakia, but the boy was soon returned to his mother. Sergei Tolstoy, ‘bohemian’ descendant of Leo Tolstoy, dies at 99 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z They capture a part of the late ’80s in what was then Czechoslovakia, a Soviet satellite state. How a design museum unearthed a treasure trove of classic Slovak games 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union, whose loss Mr. Putin often laments, sent tanks into Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. For Putin, Propping Up Allies Is Turning Into a Perilous Bargain 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Changes in East Germany affected other European countries, including Czechoslovakia and Romania. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Four days before the Sept. 30, 1938, Munich conference ratified the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, Hitler said: “This is the last territorial demand I have to make in Europe.” Opinion | As Putin bullies Ukraine, signs rise of European unity in opposition 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z What happened next at Munich in 1938 is a matter of history: Britain and France traded a piece of Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler’s Germany in return for his false pledge not to make war. Opinion | The future of Europe hinges on the coming talks between the West and Russia 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z After the Velvet Revolution in 1989 led to more democratic governance and a market economy being established in Czechoslovakia, Hrda, then 18, created a real company to sell games. How a design museum unearthed a treasure trove of classic Slovak games 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z In 1936, she moved to Czechoslovakia where she worked with resistance groups. Stories of refugees who fled Nazis revealed in online map 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z While huge crowds were demanding democracy in East Germany, neighboring Czechoslovakia remained quiet. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The group opposed the hard-line Communist regime that took over the country after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia that crushed the liberal reform period known as the Prague Spring. Petr Uhl, journalist, communist-era dissident dies at 80 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z He set up a radical leftist youth movement in the 1960s that spoke out against repressions following the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and was jailed for four years on charges of subversion. Czech journalist and human rights defender Petr Uhl dies 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z “Money trumps everything,” said Martina Navratilova, the former champion and tennis commentator, who defected to the United States when she was 18 years old to escape communist rule in Czechoslovakia. Video of Peng Shuai With Olympic Officials Fuels a Showdown With Tennis 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Martina Navratilova, a former champion who defected from Czechoslovakia in 1975 to escape the communist government, is also speaking out about Peng. Videos said to be of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai don’t resolve questions about her safety 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z In Czechoslovakia, reformers also launched an economic program based on shock therapy. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Growing up in a communist Czechoslovakia, I didn’t know much about the National Hockey League,” said Hossa. Iginla highlights class inducted into Hockey Hall of Fame 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z He adds that his confidence in the study’s results is bolstered by similar findings in Sweden, Finland and the former Czechoslovakia. Hundreds of Scientists Weigh in on a High-Stakes U.S. Abortion Case 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Such was Ms. Gruberova’s affinity for the role that she returned to it at age 64, more than four decades after she had first sung Violetta’s cherished arias in a small theater in Czechoslovakia. Edita Gruberova, dazzling operatic soprano, dies at 74 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z He grew up in Lebanon, Syria and Czechoslovakia, accompanying his father on assignments. Roger Michell, director of megahit ‘Notting Hill,’ dies at 65 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z It especially hurt Slovakia, the republic occupying the eastern third of Czechoslovakia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In my country of birth, Czechoslovakia, dissidents against Communism kept their dreams of democracy alive for decades by imagining different futures. To Solve the Environmental Crisis, We Must Foster the Power to Imagine 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z They came on a trip in 1968, but stayed when their country’s Prague Spring — a loosening of the iron grip that communist rule had on what was then Czechoslovakia — was quashed by tanks and bloodshed. Perspective | What do you bring when you’re fleeing a fire? A flood? A country? 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Six months after absorbing German-speaking Austria, and four days before the Sept. 30, 1938, Munich conference, Hitler vowed that Czechoslovakia’s Sudenten region, home of many ethnic Germans, would be his “last territorial demand.” Opinion | She leads Estonia’s democracy while keeping an eye on ‘the bully next door’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z England did meet Czechoslovakia twice at the World Cup, though. Czech Republic v England: Euro 2020 – live! 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z This period of reform, when Czechoslovakia’s capital bloomed with new ideas, became known as Prague Spring. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to the Czech Republic as Czechoslovakia. France is pulling back from Africa’s fastest-growing conflict. Who will fill the security void? 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Their rationale is that of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who notoriously gave part of Czechoslovakia to Germany and thereby emboldened Hitler: Like Chamberlain, they want to appease the far right extremists in their midst. Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the Weimar Republic: History's dark lessons 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Six months after he acquired the Sudetenland at Munich, he swallowed the rest of Czechoslovakia, then turned his attention to “protecting” ethnic Germans in Poland. Opinion | She leads Estonia’s democracy while keeping an eye on ‘the bully next door’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z That was the Czech Republic’s first win against England, though they’d also beaten them twice as part of the old Czechoslovakia. Czech Republic v England: Euro 2020 – live! 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z One month later, a new parliament elected Václav Havel president of Czechoslovakia. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Defecting from Czechoslovakia at 18 saved her soul, she said, and living as an openly gay superstar athlete set her free. Martina Navratilova Has Plenty to Say 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z "The Soviet embassy in then Czechoslovakia, with hundreds of thousands of Soviet occupation troops, was an embassy in a colony," Schneider said. Russia's Prague embassy stronghold cleared out in spy dispute 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Launched in 1946 in what was then Czechoslovakia, the festival is now one of central and eastern Europe’s leading cinema events. Czech Republic's Karlovy Vary film festival plans August return 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z In 1945, with World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation. Today in History 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z “I’m just grateful for every start I get,” said Cejka, who was born in Czechoslovakia and grew up in Germany. Defending champ Stricker joins 4-way Regions Tradition tie 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z In practice, however, applications made by immigrants from Soviet client states like Romania, Czechoslovakia and Poland were frequently approved during the mid-1980s, while more than 97 percent of Salvadorans were rejected. Their Lawsuit Prevented 400,000 Deportations. Now It’s Biden’s Call. 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z But many of the buildings that once housed tens of thousands of Jews, not only from Czechoslovakia but from across Europe, are now falling into disrepair. The Nazi concentration camp falling into ruin 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z It did not prevent the next year's Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, or the continuing horrific American escalation of the war in Vietnam. Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin urgently need to hold a summit meeting — and soon 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Books offered her a secret life apart from her parents, immigrants from a small town in what was then called Czechoslovakia who were less familiar with American culture. She Kept a Library Book for 63 Years. It Was Time to Return It. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z A look at Czechoslovakia before World War II, including images of bridges, churches, and castles in Prague, with a non-military parade through the city. Movies on TV this week: 'My Fair Lady'; 'Marry Poppins' 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z We marked the passing of GM Lubomir Kavalek, who won national titles in three different countries — Czechoslovakia, the U.S. and Germany. Your move: The wandering ways of the chess master 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The film is set in the former Czechoslovakia; that’s necessary to clarify because otherwise you’d no doubt be wondering early on, “Where is this?,” as there’s no mention of the country for some time. Review: An 'Affair' to forget, almost immediately 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z It is the worst result for the economy since the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993. The Latest: Austria toughens entry requirements over virus 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z His father, a radio journalist, left Czechoslovakia amid the Communist takeover in 1948 and settled in what was then West Germany, where he spent his career with Radio Free Europe. Lubomir Kavalek, international chess grandmaster, dies at 77 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Jim Haynes: A man who invited the world over for dinner 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z On April 7, 1939, Italy invaded Albania, prompted by Mussolini’s eagerness not to be outdone by Hitler’s triumphs — his unopposed annexation of Austria and dismemberment of Czechoslovakia. Review | World War II’s less-famous fascist 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z In 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into two new countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Today in History 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z There was the one with his prepared floor remarks on the 31st anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Editorial Roundup: Iowa 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z He represented both Czechoslovakia and the United States, where he became a citizen, in the Chess Olympiads. Lubomir Kavalek, international chess grandmaster, dies at 77 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Sebes’s first game in sole charge was a 5-2 defeat to Czechoslovakia in Prague, Hungary’s own Wembley moment four years before they destroyed England’s sense of superiority in north-west London. Hungary's Golden Squad: the greatest team never to win it all? | John Ashdown 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Hitler was not about to be swayed: He had already decided to invade Poland, hoping that Britain and France would back down again as they did over Czechoslovakia. Review | World War II’s less-famous fascist 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Members of a family circus stage a bold parade to escape from Czechoslovakia. Movies on TV this week: 'Pulp Fiction'; 'Goldfinger' and more 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z In 1989, East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia, prompting tens of thousands of refugees to flee to the West. Today in History 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z The former Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic midfielder led Slovakia to six wins, four draws and seven losses. Slovakia fires coach after poor results in Nations League 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z And I went to Czechoslovakia and I went to Poland. Margaret Atwood's guide to turning dark histories into fictional futures 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Born in the city of Ostrava in what was then Czechoslovakia, Gerolt moved to the East German city of Dresden in 1975. Blast from the past: Campers revel in East German nostalgia 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Menzel was regarded as a hero and natural treasure in Czechoslovakia, and particularly in the new Czech Republic after it and Slovakia became independent nations in 1993. Jiri Menzel, Oscar-winning Czech director of ‘Closely Watched Trains,’ dies at 82 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Several women’s tennis players would have been worthy of having the cup named for them, including Chris Evert and her friendly archrival Martina Navratilova, who won it with both Czechoslovakia and the United States. In a Fitting Tribute, the Fed Cup Is Renamed After Billie Jean King 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It was June 1986 and the last visit of Carlos the Jackal to Czechoslovakia. How cold war spymasters found arrogance of Carlos the Jackal too hot to handle 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z There is no doubt the men’s tournament, won by Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia, deserves at least an explanation if not an asterisk. Attach an Asterisk to This U.S. Open? Tennis History Mocks That Idea 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z The Munich Agreement, reached by Nazi Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy allowed Hitler's troops to annex Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland and is remembered today as a classic case of diplomatic appeasement. National security adviser calls Iran nuke agreement 'worst diplomatic deal since the Munich appeasement' 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z In 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” liberalization drive. Today in History 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z In spite of this, Scowcroft seemed totally to underestimate the significance of the parallel demonstrations in East Germany and the mass flight of its citizens into Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Brent Scowcroft obituary 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z In Pilsen, Pompeo will commemorate the World War II liberation of western Czechoslovakia by U.S. troops. Central, Eastern Europe on Pompeo’s itinerary for next trip 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z A gold medal gymnast silently rebelled against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. 1968 Mexico City Games marked by protest, falling records 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z He volunteered that he was from what had been known as Czechoslovakia. ‘As I Started to Walk Away, the Second Man Reached Out His Hand’ 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Australia 5; Czechoslovakia 3; Holland 2; Luxemburg 1. AP WAS THERE: 1920 Olympics 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z He resigned as party boss in November 1989, a month before writer and liberal political activist Vaclav Havel took office as Czechoslovakia’s last president. Milos Jakes, Czechoslovakia’s Communist leader during Velvet Revolution, dies at 97 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z After serving in France, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, he was sent in 1944 to Italy where he was wounded in fighting. Rev. Georg Ratzinger, church choirmaster and pope’s brother, dies at 96 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z After serving in France, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, Ratzinger was sent to Italy where he was wounded. Emeritus Pope Benedict's elder brother, the Rev. Georg Ratzinger, dies at 96 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z After serving in France, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia, Ratzinger was sent in 1944 to Italy where he was wounded in fighting. Retired pope’s elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, dies at 96 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Anderson, picked to play for England against Czechoslovakia at Wembley in 1978, went on to win 30 caps. Statue campaign for black player dropped by England 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z By the end of the year, the Berlin Wall had fallen, and Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria had lifted the Iron Curtain. Young people have plenty to protest about. No wonder they're raving again | Sheryl Garratt 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Amid a bitter strain in relations with Poland, Putin this year zeroed in on Warsaw, denouncing its prewar leaders of colluding with Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in 1938. Putin uses World War II parade to boost support before vote 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z In 1918, as the Habsburgs entered the history books, and a new country - Czechoslovakia - emerged from the ashes of Austro-Hungary, symbols of centuries of Catholic supremacy and Habsburg rule became targets of nationalist fervour. Torn down by mob, Catholic statue rises again 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The Briton arranged eight trains to carry 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia through Germany to Britain at the outbreak of World War II in 1939. New report finds anti-Semitism on the rise in Czech Republic 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z He was echoing Vaclav Havel, the famed dissident in Communist-era Czechoslovakia who became the country’s president after the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Opinion | A Chinese lawyer criticized the regime’s handling of the pandemic. Then he disappeared. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z In practice the application of the blue-print seems to bring its difficulties, and, even technically, some rather delicate situations have arisen in almost every count, in East and South-east Europe, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia especially. VE Day:'we have stopped the onrush of evil' - archive, May 1945 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z When Communist rule ended in Czechoslovakia in 1989, President Vaclav Havel appointed her his adviser for sport and social issues. On this day: Born May 3, 1942: Vera Caslavska, Czech gymnast 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z “The Vasulka Effect” The Orange County Museum of Art streams this documentary profiling video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, the duo from Czechoslovakia who founded the Manhattan art space the Kitchen. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in 'Frankenstein': A quarantine must-watch 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z He captured life in communist Czechoslovakia and later in the Czech Republic after the 1989 anti-communist Velvet Revolution in his memoirs “For the Love of Prague.” US animator, filmmaker Gene Deitch dies in Prague at 95 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Czechoslovakia, like so many nations in Eastern Europe, is under Soviet Russian control. This amateur is fine waiting a little longer to compete in the Masters given his fateful family journey to this point - Golf Digest 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z There was also the fact that, surrender or not, the Germans were still resisting the Red Army in Czechoslovakia. VE Day:'we have stopped the onrush of evil' - archive, May 1945 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Veronika Hubeny, a professor at the University of California, Davis, and the founding director for the Center for Quantum Mathematics and Physics, recalls a particular question from her most tender years in Czechoslovakia. What Called Them to Physics? 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Bob turns 82 in 1990 - on the same day as the outbreak of the little-known Hyphen War, a conflict over what to call Czechoslovakia after the fall of the Communist government the previous year. The times and life of the world's oldest man 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Hells Angels will be in London within the next week on the way to straighten out Czechoslovakia. Road trips, yoga and LSD with the dentist: what the Beatles did next 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Born in Czechoslovakia, he was 10 years old when the Nazis invaded his homeland, according to the Times of Israel. New York rabbi, Holocaust survivor, dies at 91 from coronavirus 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z The torch meandered through Greece, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany with each runner covering a kilometer - or .62 miles. Olympic torch relay began in 1936 at Hitler’s Berlin Games 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The 1961 championships were canceled following the fatal crash in Belgium of the plane that was carrying the U.S. team to Prague, Czechoslovakia. Coronavirus concerns may postpone or cancel world figure skating championships 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z About 145 pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain were Polish, 88 were from Czechoslovakia and 30 from Belgium. Review | Winston Churchill and the power of English myth 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z "Nobody in Germany in the 1930s and nobody in Czechoslovakia in 1948 knew that these would be the last democratic elections for a long time," he warns. Double murder haunts voters in Slovakia 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z “His early life was uprooted by the rise of the Nazi Party, their invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the outbreak of World War II.” New York rabbi, Holocaust survivor, dies at 91 from coronavirus 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z He was born in the former state of Czechoslovakia, where both of his parents served in the foreign service, and he spent most of his childhood years in European capitals like Rome and Warsaw. Seattle’s Globe Bookstore prides itself on being ‘an orphanage for books,’ but its days may be numbered 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The Soviet Union beats Czechoslovakia 2-0 to win the gold medal in hockey. AP Sportlight 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z When Czechoslovakia became an early victim of Adolf Hitler’s militarist expansionism in the fall of 1938, Einstein watched horrified from across the Atlantic. When Einstein Was Bohemian 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The United States is awarded the silver because it had beaten and tied Czechoslovakia. AP Sportlight 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet domination as part of the eastern bloc until 1989. In blessing annexation, Trump erodes an international norm 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet domination as part of the eastern bloc until 1989. In blessing annexation, Trump erodes an international norm 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Before becoming Czechoslovakia’s first president following the collapse of Soviet-era communism, Havel was an underground playwright who spent time in prison for his subversive views. Review: City Garage opens a window to life behind the Iron Curtain in 'Largo Desolato' 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z I moved to various places, including Czechoslovakia, Ireland and Israel, where I met my husband, who was also from Hungary. 'I see it as a chance to finally say goodbye': Auschwitz survivors tell their stories 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z In late 1944, he and many other young Auschwitz prisoners were sent to northern Czechoslovakia as forced labor in a radio factory. Russian Auschwitz survivor: Only coincidence that I lived 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z He also began visiting dissidents in Communist Czechoslovakia, smuggling in books, offering courses in suppressed subjects and supporting banned artists. Conservative thinker Roger Scruton dies at 75 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z PPF began accumulating its vast wealth in the mass privatisation of state assets that followed the fall of communism in the former Czechoslovakia in 1989. China accused of buying influence after Czech billionaire funds PR push 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z In neighbouring Czechoslovakia, the opposition was led by the intellectuals of Charter 77. When crowds toppled communism's house of cards 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z After three to four months in Auschwitz, I and my sisters were taken to work at a big munitions factory at a place called Mährisch Weisswasser in Czechoslovakia. 'I see it as a chance to finally say goodbye': Auschwitz survivors tell their stories 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z He cited a 1938 agreement reached by Germany, Britain, France and Italy that allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia as an example of Western leaders’ alleged “collusion” with Hitler. Putin rebuffs Western criticism of 1939 Stalin-Hitler pact 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z In 1968, he witnessed the Soviets violently suppress the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia and took to the streets, photographing the locals but also the invading soldiers. Barriers, barbed wire and borders in the head: Josef Koudelka's Holy Land 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z He insisted that those deals, including the 1938 Munich pact that allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakia, encouraged the Nazis and paved way to World War II. Putin bristles at Western criticism of 1939 Soviet-Nazi pact 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Also, Passer gives a storyteller’s account as a witness to Czechoslovakia’s history — its tragicomic absurdity and stubborn humanity. Newsletter: Impeachment time draws nigh 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z These complex moral questions, for which there are no definitive answers, are played out in a Czechoslovakia reeling under Soviet domination at the height of the cold war. Top 10 novels about adultery | Douglas Kennedy 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z The two filmmakers were newly expatriated from Czechoslovakia and living in New York’s West Village. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Czechoslovakia owes its unfortunate history to its lot as a main stage for the great conflicts of the 20th century. Czech history through the eyes of a filmmaker 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z My interest in writing about Ivan Passer and Milos Forman’s escape from Czechoslovakia goes back more than 25 years, since almost the beginning of my acquaintance with Passer. Behind the story: Learning the truth about director Milos Forman's escape from Czechoslovakia 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z He writes of traveling to Czechoslovakia at age five to spend a few months with his maternal grandparents, where he recalls a border officer objected to his coat. Don Jr.’s book says a lot more about the Trump family than he knows 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z “Do I consider my life in France as a replacement, a substitute life, and not a real life? Do I say to myself: ‘Your real life is in Czechoslovakia, among your old countrymen’? Milan Kundera's Czech citizenship restored after 40 years 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The two friends’ arrival in New York followed a haphazard escape from Czechoslovakia a few months after the Soviet invasion of August 1968. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z In 1968, shortly after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Austria accepted the first Russian gas shipments into Europe. Power of connection: why the Russia–Europe gas trade is strangely untouched by politics 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z Passer went on to describe, in dramatic detail, their escape from Czechoslovakia, a story recounted in today’s Column One about their friendship. Behind the story: Learning the truth about director Milos Forman's escape from Czechoslovakia 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Police said Tuesday the three knew about the killings but didn’t do anything to stop it even though Czechoslovakia signed an international treaty that allowed people to leave. 3 former top Czech communist face misuse of power charges 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Police said Tuesday the three knew about the killings but didn’t do anything to stop it even though Czechoslovakia signed an international treaty that allowed people to leave. 3 former top Czech communist face misuse of power charges 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Their classmates included other precocious rebels, among them a future playwright, dissident and president of the future democratic Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z You’re saying that because he married a woman from Czechoslovakia, which was behind the Iron Curtain? Malcolm Nance on the Danger of Conspiracy Theories 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z At one point, Trump Jr. mentioned that his mother’s parents were under surveillance while living in Czechoslovakia. RNC spent nearly $100,000 on Don Jr.’s new book before it landed atop New York Times bestseller list 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z The 75-year-old Nedomansky starred for 12 years in his native Czechoslovakia before becoming the first athlete from an Eastern European communist country to defect to North America to pursue a professional hockey career in 1974. Women’s legend Wickenheiser among new hockey Hall of Famers 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “Václav was superb to the outside world. He put Czechoslovakia back on the map,” said Urban, co-founder of the post-communist Civic Forum movement. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z When Ivan and Milos returned to Czechoslovakia that fall, the situation was tense. Milos Forman, Ivan Passer and their 73-year friendship: Childhood, escaping Czechoslovakia and conquering Hollywood 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z When he visited Czechoslovakia, they had agents in place around him; they attempted to recruit him. Malcolm Nance on the Danger of Conspiracy Theories 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z The protest was held on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which ended communist rule in what was then Czechoslovakia. Huge Prague protest marks revolution anniversary 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z It was a moment that precipitated the end of communism in Czechoslovakia and is being marked 30 years on by the people of two states, Czechs and Slovaks. Velvet Revolution: Prague's ghosts of communism 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Tributes to the events of 1989 – when Czechoslovakia shook off four decades of communist rule after similar allied regimes had fallen in Poland, Hungary and East Germany – have been ubiquitous in recent days. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z She served for four years as a radio telephone teletype operator, first at a base in West Germany, where she could look across the border into Czechoslovakia, then at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Perspective | For veterans in need, So Others Might Eat offers a home and ample support 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z His father enrolled him in diction and acting courses, and sent him to a top marionette training school in Czechoslovakia at age 16. The French Theaters Where the iPhone Is No Match for Guignol 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z As a United States soldier, Mr. Pompeo was posted in 1986 to a base in Bindlach, Bavaria, where he was focused on securing the borders with what was then East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Pompeo and Netanyahu Escalate Pressure on Europeans to Scrap Iran Nuclear Pact 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Tomas attended most of the demonstrations that convulsed Communist Czechoslovakia and remembers the period before 1989 as a time when the only freedom was among families and friends. Velvet Revolution: Prague's ghosts of communism 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Times have changed dramatically since Monsignor Václav Malý endured interrogations, beatings and the indignities of being barred from the priesthood while being forced to clean toilets as the price of campaigning against Czechoslovakia’s communist regime. Velvet Revolution dissidents warn against new threats to Czech freedom 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z East Germany ended up closing its border with Czechoslovakia in October to stem the tide. How 1989 reshaped the modern world 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z A trainee train dispatcher becomes a lover and a hero in World War II Czechoslovakia. Movies on TV this week: 'Casablanca,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Terminator' and more 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The walls are named for one in Prague on which young people in the 1980s posted messages airing their grievances against the Communist regime that ruled Czechoslovakia. At Hong Kong Protests, Art That Imitates Life 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z The exodus became a human flood; thousands also sought refuge in the West German embassy in Czechoslovakia, and families became separated. The people power activists who toppled East Germany 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Biles is on track to become the first woman in 52 years to win back-to-back Olympic all-around gold medals, since Vera Caslavska of former Czechoslovakia did so at the 1964 and ’68 Olympics. American Simone Biles wins fifth all-around world gymnastics title 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z But his action on Jan. 16, 1969, did inspire weeklong protests two decades later, and the Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel later in 1989 that ended Czechoslovakia’s communist era. Czechs open memorial to student who burned himself to death 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Ripples of discontent disturb a village in Czechoslovakia when a circus performer arrives in town with his assistant. Movies on TV this week: 'Casablanca,' 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'The Terminator' and more 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z What Vaclav Havel, the dissident and then Czechoslovakia’s last president, warned against has come to the mainland: a “world of absolute manipulation.” Opinion | Time is on Taiwan’s side, as long as the U.S. is, too 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z Among the prisoners were some of the best doctors from Czechoslovakia, Germany, Austria, and Holland. My Terezín Diary 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Czech Republic: This was the first World Cup game for the Czechs since 1982, when the tournament was called the world championship and the country was still Czechoslovakia. No surprise: USA tops Czechs 88-67 to open World Cup 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z But East Berlin moved fast to have the front door slammed: Hungary’s northern border to Czechoslovakia closed. From a picnic to the Berlin Wall: my 1989 summer of revolution 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z About 15 years later Brod, also a Czech Jewish writer, was forced to flee Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia for Tel Aviv in Israel. Lost Kafka papers finally reunited in Israel 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The book will reportedly span topics from Trump’s “childhood summers in communist Czechoslovakia that began his political thought process”, through to the “major achievements of president Trump’s administration”. Donald Trump Jr writes Triggered, 'the book leftist elites don't want you to read!' 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z |
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