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Talking PointAbductions of Czechoslovak citizens to the Soviet Union after WWII
After the Soviet armed forces liberated most of Czechoslovakia from the
Nazis in 1944 and 1945, the Soviet Union started slowly but surely to
assert its influence in the country. Post-war Czechoslovakia was still a
country with democratic institutions and free elections. The end of
democracy was to come in 1948 when the communists took over, but the first
signs of what was to come appeared much earlier...
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Press ReviewPress Review
The bad weather makes the front pages, although what's bad for some is not
necessarily bad for others. MLADA FRONTA DNES shows a man cross-country
skiing along the tram tracks in Prague's Bila Hora district, while LIDOVE
NOVINY has a photo of someone snowboarding on Petrin Hill, with a
snow-topped Prague Castle behind him.
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Current AffairsPolice close case on 1948 death of Jan Masaryk - murder, not suicide
Fifty-six years after he was found dead in a courtyard beneath his apartment
window, police have finally concluded that Czechoslovakia's post-war
foreign minister Jan Masaryk was murdered. This will come as no surprise
to those who watched the Communist Party take power in 1948, but goes
against the official version that Masaryk committed suicide. Rob Cameron
reports.
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