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Czechs TodayFrantisek Perina - Czechoslovakia's ace pilot who made his name in the Battle of France
Anyone acquainted with Czech military history will likely have heard
of ace pilot Frantisek Perina - who fought with distinction for
Czechoslovakia in both the Battles of France and Britain during the Second
World War. Mr Perina - named to the honorary rank of major general in 2000
- turned 95 just last month - and was honoured by the Czech Army and Air
Force. On the occasion of the anniversary of the end of the war, we
look back at key moments in Mr Perina's military
career - ignored by the Communists for forty years. More
Current AffairsThe tragic story of the disappearing giraffes
Thirty-one years ago last weekend, in the small Czech town of Dvur Kralove,
a whole herd of giraffes was shot. Nobody was ever told why. This sounds
like the opening of a Kafka novel, but it is a real event, and one that
came to fascinate the British journalist JM Ledgard so much that he wrote
a novel on the subject. David Vaughan reports. More
Letter from PragueAn EU seminar and the bloody face of a Czech M.P.
For those of you living here in the Czech Republic, you'll relate. For
those of you listening abroad, an account of one day from last week will
tell you something about what it's like to live in a post-communist
country. You go about your business day, and then, out of nowhere, you're
reminded of an ugly chapter in this country's history. And you're forced
to think about how Czechs are dealing with the past.
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Current AffairsCeremony honors Holocaust victims, Europe looks at tragedy's lessons
Holocaust Rememberance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising. Commemorations in honor of the victims were held throughout the
Czech Republic, and education ministers from across Europe met for a
second day of talks on Holocaust education. An elderly survivor at one
memorial in Prague reads the names and fates of many Czech Holocaust
victims: A ghetto, a concentration camp, and the end.
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SpotlightLidice: A village immortalised through tragedy
The massacre of Lidice, a small village just North West of Prague, on the
night of the 9th of June 1942 was the darkest moment in Czech wartime
history. Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the German
Reichsprotektor of the Czech Lands, on the 27th of May 1942, the Nazis
began a massive retaliation campaign against the civilian Czech populace.
Lidice bore the brunt of this savage response, accused of harbouring one
of the perpetrators of the assassination. More
Current AffairsWorld War II fighter ace Frantisek Perina honoured on occasion of 95th birthday
This week is a special one for the Czech military and Czechs remembering
the events of the Second World War: Frantisek Perina celebrates his 95th
birthday on April 8th. One of the most famous Czech fighter pilots,
Frantisek Perina fought for his country in both France and England. More
One on OneJan Culik - Part One
Jan Culik is a senior lecturer in Czech at the Slavonic Studies department
at Glasgow University's School of Modern Languages and Cultures. He is
also well known here in the Czech Republic as a political commentator and
the man behind the Britske listy website. In this, the first of a two-part
interview, Jan Culik talks about his studies at Prague's Charles
University, his translator father, his brief time at Radio Prague, and how
he ended up in Glasgow.
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