Thirty-five years after the end of Communist Party rule in what was then Czechoslovakia, the government has increased the pensions of former dissidents and cut those of former regime officials.

The aim of socialism is the elimination of the fragmentation of humanity in petty states and the individualism of nations—not only the coming closer of nations to each other, but their merger or ...

A district court will weigh whether Cardinal Štěpán Trochta, imprisoned by the Nazis and later by the communists, was ...

Martin Horička examines how a democratic state became a Soviet vassal – and why the dilemmas of that era echo in today’s debates. Three times a week – on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays – direct ...

Archaeologists in Prague have begun exhuming bodies of political prisoners executed by Czechoslovakia's communist regime. Activists hope it will help unravel the fate of those whose final resting ...

Terezia Marlowe’s story is part of a Global Slovakia Project- Slovak Settlers, authored by Zuzana Palovic and Gabriela Bereghazyova. The book is available for purchase via ...

Decades after it was dissolved by Soviet-backed authorities, remnants of the Museum of the Liberation Struggle of Ukraine are ...

Czechoslovakia had been a communist close communismA system of running a country in which all means of production such as tools, factories and raw materials, are owned by the community as a whole.

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