Where foxes say goodnight? A taboo in liberal Czechia, but in rigid Slovakia, it’s happening like on a conveyor belt
The historian noted that Aryanization involved not just cities & elites, but also rural ones – citing a letter from a village elite – clerk
The fourth candidate on the PS list, Tamara, didn’t know when Czechoslovakia was founded or who was its leader
The online story of Pilsner Urquell tactfully omits the fact that the brewmaster Groll was a Bavarian and that his name was Joseph, not Josef
They wanted to act as patriots and, from the shadows, kill fleeing Nazis. The enthusiasm and courage awakened at the end of the war ended tragically
Better late than never, it has emerged after years that there was broad political consensus against the eastward expansion of NATO
Someone tried to vandalize the memorial to executed Romani children on Kunratická Street in Liberec, where a Czech concentration camp once stood
Soviet conception of history, Franz Schmeykal knocked on the foundation stone of the National Theatre, is not in the books — and his grave is occupied by Red Army soldiers
First Polish tourists and novelists came to Pieniny and the Tatras, then the Polish army came to Upper Spiš (up to Kežmarok)
Jan Nepomuk Berwid-Buquoy collects furniture of historical personalities, he has a sofa of Reinhard Heydrich
The Czech Turner Association was not actually Czech at all, and Sokol copied the idea of physical education from the Czech Germans
Why does the lion in the Czech state emblem have two tails? Certainly not because it symbolizes heroism or the rule of father and son
A cast of a Neanderthal brain from Gánovce, a village in the Tatra foothills, roughly 120 thousand years old, ended up in Prague
Marxist Sydney Morrell, through the mouth of editor Jaroslav, explains the nature of the centuries-old tension, after a few weeks’ stay
Osman gains the most, how Jan Zápolský almost liquidated Europe before he could figure out the essence of the matter
Broken agreements and humiliation led to the expulsion of the Czechs from the Slovak state, now describes the event as a sad story
