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False Friends: 9 Words That English Speakers Might Confuse in Czech

No matter your mother tongue, as a foreign language learner you will sometimes encounter “false friends”.

by Prague Morning Jan 13, 2022

Five Czech RAF Crew Missing for 80 Years Identified

Five Czech crewmembers who were reported missing during the Second World War more than 80 years ago have been recovered and identified.

 by Prague Morning Jan 12, 2022
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Prague Will Soon Have a New Museum

A new space for Czech and international modern and contemporary art is opening in Prague: Kunsthalle Praha.

 by Prague Morning Jan 12, 2022

Charter 77 Marks 45th Anniversary

Charter 77, the most famous manifesto criticizing the Communist government, came to light on January the 6th, 1977.

by Prague Morning Jan 06, 2022
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Věra Čáslavská and the Forgotten Story of Her 1968 Olympics Protest

Mexico City, 1968. A newly-crowned Olympic champion is about to make the life-changing decision to stage a political protest on the podium. The protest came from Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská as a reaction to the Soviet-led invasion of her country two months earlier. Caslavska turned her head away from the flag of what she called the “invaders’ representatives”, the Soviet Union. The action was understated. The ramifications were huge, as World Service programme Sporting Witness has discovered through the first-hand account of British gymnast Mary Prestidge. Prestidge spent time training alongside Čáslavská in the build-up to the Mexico Games as part of an exchange programme. The Czech gymnast was already a superstar, having won three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, including the individual all-around title. Her chances of repeating such dominance were dealt a huge blow in the run-up to the Olympics, however, when she was forced into hiding by the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968. When the ‘Prague Spring’ reforms were consequently halted, Čáslavská, a vocal opponent of Soviet rule, feared she would be arrested so she retreated to a remote forest hideout. The Olympics were just two months away. Rather than prepare for Mexico in a gymnasium, Čáslavská...

 by Prague Morning Jan 05, 2022
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January 5, 1968: the Prague Spring Begins

The Prague Spring began with the ascension of the reformist Alexander Dubček to the post of first secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

by Prague Morning Jan 04, 2022
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Secret Files of Czechoslovaks Interned in Soviet Gulags Released

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the declaration of a Soviet amnesty on 3 January 1942 pertaining to Czechoslovak citizens imprisoned and interned in the USSR, the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR) will publish a collection of NKVD investigative files in cooperation with the Department of Cybernetics at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. These files were kept on 1,000 Czechoslovaks out of a total of approximately 8,000 who were imprisoned in Gulag camps during WWII. This represents the first collection of Soviet secret service files obtained within the framework of systematic digitalisation at the State Archive of the Zakarpatska Oblast (DAZO) in Uzzhorod. “The investigation files include arrest reports, fingerprints, photographs, interrogation reports, charges, a gulag’s discharge, and a rehabilitation decision. The files include personal photographs and documents of those arrested by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, which in Russian is abbreviated to NKVD, ” said historian Adam Hradilek, project leader of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. According to Hradilek, the documents represent about one-fifth of the files on Czechoslovak refugees to the USSR. The first Czechs that were repressed in the Soviet Union were those that settled in Imperial Russia...

 by Prague Morning Jan 03, 2022

January 1st, 1922: The “Great Prague” is Officially Established

Heart of Europe – this is how Prague, is often called. The largest town of the Czech Republic is located in the centre of Bohemia, in the Vltava river valley. But how was Prague divided in the past?  When we say Prague today, we see a Greater Prague which was created in 1922 when a large number of surrounding villages were connected to the original inner town. The inner town consisted of two parts, Prague I – Old Town, Prague II – New Town, Prague III – Lesser Town, Prague IV – Hradčany (castle part), Prague V – Josefov, Prague VI – Vyšehrad. Greater Prague consisted of a number of smaller or larger villages which were near to the original centre. Wikipedia again has a great map of the division of Inner Town (black), Greater Prague (dark grey), and the new parts which were connected after WW2 (light grey). Development of administrative division Although the towns of Prague formed a territorially continuous whole, they were still administratively separate. After unsuccessful attempts by Charles IV (1367–1377) and later by Jan Želivský (1421–1424) and Jan Pašek (1524–1528) to join the Old Town and the New Town, the unification of the four towns...

 by Prague Morning Jan 01, 2022
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Prague Concerts 2022: The Best Shows to Book for Next Year

Following nearly two years of postponements, cancellations and rescheduling due to COVID-19, big-name artists and music venues in Prague are optimistically heading into the new year with loaded concert calendars. Next Saturday, January 8, the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli should open a new concert season at the O2 arena. Two weeks later, Till Lindemann will perform at Holešovice Tipsport arena, as part of a European tour he is set to embark on with his solo project called “Lindermann”. Pop singer Enrique Iglesias will play on February 18, at the O2 arena. The same location will host on Saturday, March 12, the Swedish metal band Sabaton. The Canadian singer Shawn Mendes, who plans to perform at the O2 arena on April 11, mainly addresses teenagers. Mendes has almost 30 million subscribers on its YouTube channel, will play in the Czech Republic for the first time. On Saturday, April 23, a joint concert by Helloween and Hammerfall will take place again at O2 arena. One Republic (May 10), Tool (May 23) and German veterans Scorpions (May 26) should also perform in the multi-purpose arena. Rammstein will take the stage at Prague’s Letňany on Sunday and Monday, May 15th and 16th. On Friday,...

 by Prague Morning Dec 31, 2021

Europe’s Biggest WWII Resistance Action Began 81 Years Ago Today

Today marks 80 years since Czechoslovak parachutists Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš were dropped into occupied Bohemia to carry out the assassination of Nazi Governor Reinhard Heidrych in Operation Anthropoid. The May 1942 assassination of Acting Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is considered to be the greatest act of European domestic resistance during the Second World War. The eventual fate of Heydrich, the “executioner of the Czech nation,” who immediately unleashed terror against the Czechs in September 1941 and launched the Holocaust of the Protectorate Jews and Roma, first began to materialize in the autumn of 1941. The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London began planning an action on a larger scale with the British at that time. Eighty years ago, on the night of 28-29 December 1941, three airdrops of paratroopers (Silver A, Silver B and Anthropoid) were deployed into the Protectorate, including those would would plan the assassination of Heydrich. The 37-year-old Heydrich, who had been the Acting Reich Protector for a total of eight months and eight days, had been installed as ruler at Prague Castle for just three months as of 28 December 1941. The assassination would take place five months...

 by Prague Morning Dec 29, 2021
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Czech Traditions: New Year’s Eve and Lentils Soup

The Czech Republic has got a very rich history full of traditions that carry on to today.

 by Prague Morning Dec 28, 2021
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Prague’s Loreto Carillon to Play Christmas Melody

The Loreto bells will play a traditional Christmas melody from December 24 till February 2. It is the first time in over 120 years. The melody – which is a closely guarded secret – will sound every hour from 10:00 to 17:00 daily. The Christmas carol was last heard at the end of the 19th century when the melodies in the mechanism changed regularly. It was designed so as to allow a change of melody fairly easily. History The Loreto (Loreta) was built during the 17th century (1626) at the order of Katerina of Lobkowicz, in the times of Ferdinand II, as part of the Catholic campaign to attract the Czechs back to Catholicism. Its construction followed the battle of the White Mountain, where the Czech Protestants were defected and the Catholics retook control over Prague. Its impressive Baroque Bell Tower was given to the Loreto by the rich merchant from the Lesser Town, Eberhard von Glauchau. The author of all twenty-seven signed playing bells (only one was damaged in the 18th century and replaced) was the Amsterdam town bell-founder Claude Fremy, who made them between 1683-91. The consecration of the bells in the Loreto in 1695 before they were set...

 by Prague Morning Dec 21, 2021

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