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Czech HistoryThe rise and fall of the cross border agent
In this week’s Czech History we look at the phenomenon of cross border
agents, people employed by Western intelligence services to cross the
frontier during the early days of the Czechoslovak communist regime to
gather information, create networks and bring back chosen individuals. Some
crossed the border many times, some were caught on the first attempt. For
some the transient phenomenon helped launch them onto a new life, for
others heroic, and not so heroic acts, ended with treachery, death and long
terms of imprisonment. More
Current AffairsOn-line project presents stories of people killed at communist Czechoslovakia’s borders
The Czech Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has launched an
on-line research project which will unearth more about the practices of the
country’s communist regime. The institute wants to collect and publish
the personal histories of all those who were killed trying to flee
communist Czechoslovakia.
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From the ArchivesNeighbours in a foreign country: a new border divides villages in two
After the split of Czechoslovakia at the beginning of 1993, Radio Prague
devoted several programmes to the impact of the new border on ordinary
people’s lives. For most, life stayed much the same, but the split did
have a very real impact on people living close to the border, and on Czechs
living in Slovakia or vice versa. Here is one Slovak student, settled in
the Czech Republic, talking to Radio Prague a few months after the split:
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