Czechoslovakia entered 1935 as Central Europe’s last functioning democracy, but the pressure around it was building fast. Border disputes, minority resentment, and Nazi-backed politics began to tear ...

PRAGUE -- Viewed from Prague, the images of Russian tanks streaming into Georgia earlier this month carried inevitable echoes. Many commentators and politicians around the world have made comparisions ...

This is the fifth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before the 17th edition is played in Germany next year. So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964 ...

Up the winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague’s Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines. As they had many times before, they bore ...

After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, following the Prague Spring—a period of political liberalisation and reform in ...

On August 21, 1968, Soviet troops and their Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to that country's brief period of political liberalization, called the Prague Spring. About ...

Czechoslovakia ceased to exist 25 years ago, stirring today ambivalence, nostalgia and shrugs. Recalling the Czechoslovak Split PRAGUE – When the clock strikes midnight on Dec. 31 st and the world ...

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NUREMBERG, Dec. 5, 1945 (UP) - American prosecutors introduced evidence today that Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering browbeat Dr. Emil Hacha into surrendering Czechoslovakia in March 1939, by ...