Current Affairs Killings on Czechoslovak border during Communist era examined in new report
During the four decades Czechoslovakia was behind the Iron Curtain, hundreds if not thousands of people tried to make their way to freedom across the country's heavily guarded borders. Many died in the process, with 282 definite cases and up to 40 more probable killings. Of the certified cases, 145 people were shot trying to cross the border, and almost 100 were electrocuted, with the others dying in a variety of ways, such as drowning. Those figures come from a report out this week by Martin Pulec from the Office for the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism. I spoke to Mr Pulec earlier, and he first told me something about the people who guarded the Czechoslovak border.
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