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…
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…
Přidáno: June 12, 2023
One of the characteristic features of the post-war period were the efforts of the security forces to track down and punish any collaborators of the Protectorate regime as they deserved. Many of these persons were awarded the so-called St….
Přidáno: May 5, 2023
Sixty-six years ago, on 17 May 1957, Henriette Tremeaud, the wife of the Prefect of the French department of Bas-Rhin, was murdered. She was killed in the explosion of a tripwire device placed in a cigar box. It turned…
Přidáno: April 17, 2023
One of the sections of the State Security Corps was the Department of Party and Constitutional Officials Security, codenamed Directorate 5. It had a specific task – to provide security for the highest state and Communist Party officials. One…
