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 ...
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 ...
PRAGUE (AP) — Unknown musings of the founding father of an independent Czechoslovakia, its first president, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, are believed to have been unearthed. An envelope, whose existence ...
The following script is from "Saving the Children" which aired on April 27, 2014. Bob Simon is the correspondent. Harry Radliffe and Vanessa Fica, producers. Now, an extraordinary story from the ...
During the Cold War, Czechoslovakia stood apart from some of its Warsaw Pact partners by developing its own small arms. This included the Sa vz. 23, a “no-frills” submachine gun that was ahead of its ...