Přidáno: October 8, 2024

For many of us, the month of October is marked with the preparation for All Soul’s Day, held on 2 November. Without trying to invoke the bleak atmosphere, we would like to draw your attention to archival materials relating…

Přidáno: September 9, 2024

The infamous Munich Agreement, in which the border areas of Czechoslovakia were ceded to Nazi Germany, was signed 86 years ago, in the night of 29–30 September 1938. This tragic example of policy of appeasement was seen as the…

Přidáno: August 12, 2024

Owing to the “alertness” of the State Security (StB), interesting and yet unknown photographs of the occupying Polish troops in Zdar nad Sazavou, dated August 1968, have been preserved in file no. KR-4201 BN, along with photographs from the…

Přidáno: July 10, 2024

During the onset of the so-called normalisation of society and, generally, in 1968–1989, just like after 1948, attention was paid to organising as many children’s and youth leisure activities as possible, emphasising their political and ideological education. This was…

Přidáno: June 4, 2024

The former Czech foreign intelligence service (codenamed Department I until 1989) also used methods of terror in its work. To achieve its goals, or the objectives of the country’s political leadership, it organised kidnappings and assassinations. It did not…