The Broumov Monastery
Přidáno: November 9, 2023
Archival materials describing the liquidation of male monastic communities by the communist regime as part of the so-called “Mission K” (Akce K in Czech) have now been, for the most part, well-known by academic as well as private researchers….
Operation Beta
Přidáno: October 1, 2023
In the archive documents of the month (October) we present the third document from the territory of Africa. It is linked to Portuguese Guinea, where an armed struggle for independence has been going on since the 1960s. The most…
Two Letters from Czechoslovakia
Přidáno: September 19, 2023
The plenipotentiary of Boris Yeltzin, the President of the Russian Federation handed over to Vaclav Havel, the President of the Czechoslovak Federative Republic a collection of seven verified copies of documents on 16 July 1992 that had up to…
“Friendly Help” in 1968 and the Outbreak of the So-called Normalisation of Society
Přidáno: August 21, 2023
In the late evening of 20 August 1968, the invading armies of five Warsaw Pact states, namely the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Bulgaria, crossed the borders of the former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. Next day, tanks of…
Foreign Equipment at the Danube Border Guard
Přidáno: July 10, 2023
After the end of the Second World War and the restoration of the Czechoslovak Republic, the question arose as to how to protect the state borders on the Danube. After the change of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border in 1947, when…