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30 years on, Czechoslovakia's 'velvet divorce' is not a model for Scottish independence from the UK

Had Scottish nationalists got their way, 2023 would have seen the country head to the polls in a second referendum over independence from the United Kingdom – and they might have won. Whereas the first attempt in 2014 resulted in 55% voting “no,” polls suggest that after Brexit, a majority…

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World Cup image 'proves time travel is real' as 'flip phone' spotted after 1962 final

Conspiracy theorists have claimed that 'time travel is real' after a 'flip phone' was spotted in an image from the World Cup final in 1962, as Brazil beat Czechoslovakia 3-1

Daily Mirror

Czech museum to return original Beethoven score to heirs

A musical manuscript handwritten by Ludwig van Beethoven is getting returned to the heirs of the richest family in pre-World War II Czechoslovakia, whose members had to flee the country to escape the Holocaust

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Top Nazi's chilling letter begging British royal for help is uncovered after 80 years

Von Ribbentrop was instrumental to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, which triggered the start of the Second World War

Daily Mirror

Kherson civilian 'evacuations' by Russia 'outrageous': EU Commission VP Jourova

Speaking to FRANCE 24, Vera Jourova, a Vice-President of the European Commission, strongly condemned what Russia says are evacuations of civilians in the Kherson province of southern Ukraine. "I come from Czechoslovakia and this is the old playbook," she told Catherine Nicholson. "The Soviet military invasion of 1968 was presented…

France 24

Some Czechs sending 1,968 crowns to Ukraine in memory of 1968 Soviet invasion

Czech nationals have been sending exactly 1,968 crowns ($80) to Ukraine to help it defend itself against Russia and to commemorate the 1968 invasion of then Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops, the Ukrainian embassy said on Sunday.

Reuters

Children saved from Nazis by British hero approached by filmmakers for 'incredible story'

One Life, the story of a man called Sir Nicholas Winton who rescued 669 children from Czechoslovakia, stars Sir Anthony Hopkins

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Ivana Trump, First Wife And Business Partner Of Donald Trump, Dies At 73

Ivana Trump, the Czechoslovakian-born first wife of Donald Trump who worked as a partner in his rise to fame and fortune in New York City’s commercial real estate world, passed away at the age of 73.

Benzinga

Former Czech PM loses case on secret police collaborating

A Slovak court has dismissed a lawsuit by former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis against allegations that he collaborated with Czechoslovakia’s communist-era secret police

The Independent UK

The RazReport Podcast: The Future Of Crypto Trading with Jakub Rehor, Co-Founder and CIO of Lucy Labs

In this edition of the RazReport we have Jakub Rehor Co-Founder and CIO of Lucy Labs. Jason Raznick:Welcome to the RazReport Podcast Jakub, lets start with basics, where did you grow up?

Benzinga

Mimi Reinhard: Secretary who typed up Schindler’s List

Reinhard was one of more than 1,000 Jewish people to be saved from the Nazi death camps by Oskar Schindler

The Independent UK

Index on Censorship, inspired by Soviet dissidents, marks 50 years of fighting for free speech

The brave protests of Soviet dissidents in 1968 spawned an organisation that is still giving voice to Putin’s critics today

The Guardian - UK

Madeleine Albright, First Woman To Become Secretary Of State, Dies At 84

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, passed away at the age of 84.

Benzinga

Madeleine Albright, first female US secretary of state, dies

Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War II and rose to become the first female US secretary of state, has died at the age of 84.

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Evening Standard

Madeleine Albright: First female US secretary of state dies of cancer age 84

Bill Clinton has paid tribute to the “extraordinary” Madeleine Albright who has died of cancer aged 84 after making history as the first female U.S. secretary of state.

Chicago Sun-Times

Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies

President Bill Clinton chose Albright as America’s top diplomat in 1996, and she served in that capacity for the last four years of the Clinton administration.

Tribune News Service

Carl P. Leubsdorf: A different Europe faces this Russian aggression

In the 1950s and 1960s, revolutions started by nascent independence movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia prompted the Soviet Union to unleash its military might to squash them.

Daily Mirror

'Chilling' last possessions of three Holocaust victims unearthed at extermination camp

One discovery originated in Lviv, Ukraine, another in Poland, and another in Czechoslovakia, but all three are thought to have belonged to Jews murdered at the Nazi death camp

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Munich – The Edge of War: women in historical films are too often unrealistic

In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia so in a bid to avoid war the Four Powers Agreement was signed and Czechoslovakia would surrender its border regions and defences. British…

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Hitler redux: Should investors fear Vladimir Putin?

Even as Hitler sent his army through Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939, the Dow was on the upswing.

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