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unusual facts about Czechoslovak



Aca Obradović

For that, he made a television broadcasting contract with the NBC worth two million dollars, with condition to set a Soviet and Czechoslovak team to play in finals, unfortunately for him, that plan has failed due to Soviet embassy prohibited their team to perform, just before the final match.

Addington, Buckinghamshire

During the Second World War from 1940 to 1945 Addington House was the residence of the Cigna, Moravec, Strankmuller and Tauer families of the Czechoslovak Military Intelligence staff under Colonel František Moravec, who planned the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.

Aero Vodochody

Aero Vodochody (commonly referred to as Aero; Vodochody is a location) is a Czech (and Czechoslovak) aircraft company, active from 1919, notable for producing the L-29 Delfin, L-39 Albatros, L-59 Super Albatros and the L-159 Alca.

Charles I of Austria's attempts to retake the throne of Hungary

On March 28, Czechoslovak and Yugoslavians envoys declared a restoration would be a casus belli; on April 1 the diet (with legitimists abstaining) passed a unanimous resolution praising Horthy's conduct and endorsing the status quo, and calls for Charles' arrest grew (Horthy adamantly refused this); by April 3 Briand publicly denied any deal had been made.

Cirkus bude!

Cirkus bude! is a 1954 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský.

Claire Sterling

Sterling's first book revisited the 1948 death of Jan Masaryk, the Czechoslovak foreign minister, which she blamed on Soviet or Czechoslovak Stalinists.

Constitutional Act on the Czechoslovak Federation

The reform concerned Slovak autonomy; the concentration of governmental authority in Prague was a source of discontent within Slovakia throughout the 1960s, and the federalization of the Czechoslovak government codified in the 1968 constitutional amendments was virtually the only product of the reform movement associated with the Prague Spring to survive.

Czech tramping

The economic successes of the new nation and its many political and social links to the United States (for example the first Czechoslovak President, Tomáš Masaryk, was married to Charlotte Garrigue, who was from a prominent American family and part of the reason for Masaryk's success in persuading Woodrow Wilson to support the inception of Czechoslovakia) meant that Czechs' interest in things American continued in earnest.

Czechoslovak War Cross 1918

John J. Pershing was one such recipient of the Czechoslovak War Cross.

Dobrovský

Luboš Dobrovský (born 1932), Czech journalist and politician, former Czechoslovak minister of defence

Eva Šuranová

Eva Šuranová (née Kucmanová born April 24, 1946 in Ózd, Hungary) is a Czechoslovak athlete, who competed mainly in the long jump.

Evzen Korec

Between 1983 and 1986 he had been working as a researcher at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he received the PhD in Oncology.

František Binder

Lieutenant Colonel in memoriam "Frantisek Binder" (October 22, 1914, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Hojna Voda - March 3, 1942, UK, East Wretham, Norfolk) was a Czech soldier who participated in the fights to save the Czechoslovak state borders in the unit SOS - State Defense Guard (part of the Financial Guard) and subsequently for World War II fighting in the Royal Air Force (RAF) against Nazi Germany.

Gyönk

In 1947, a Czechoslovak-Hungarian population exchange saw 9 Highland Hungarian families (55 people) resettled in the upland village of Martos.

History of the Israeli Air Force

The backbone of the IAF consisted of 25 Avia S-199s (purchased from Czechoslovakia, essentially Czechoslovak-built Messerschmitt Bf 109s) and 62 Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IXEs ferried from Žatec base code-named "Zebra" where pilots also received preliminary flight training.

Horst Giese

He performed in some 50 films and television productions, and is known for his portrayals of Joseph Goebbels in several films, including in the five-part series Liberation, the two-part Bulgarian production Anvil or Hammer and in the Czechoslovak comedy Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea.

Jan Šejna

Novotný was finally replaced by Alexander Dubček, a reform-minded member of the Czechoslovak party presidium, as leader of the party.

Jaromír Nečas

Jaromír Nečas (17 November 1888 in Nové Město na Moravě – 30 January 1945 in Merthyr Mawr) was a Czechoslovak politician.

Jaroslav Dietl

Jaroslav Dietl (22 May 1929, Zagreb – 29 June 1985, Prague) was a Czechoslovak scenarist of series.

Jitka

Jitka Janáčková (born 1973, Mladá Boleslav), a Czech-Czechoslovak sprint canoer

Jitka Janáčková

Jitka Janáčková (born May 22, 1973 ın Mladá Boleslav) is a Czechoslovak-Czech sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s.

John Tusa

His father, also John Tusa (Jan Tůša), was managing director of British Bata Shoes, established by the Czechoslovak shoe company, which, following its international pattern, also created a pioneering work-living community around its factory in East Tilbury, Essex.

Jozef Jarabinský

Jozef Jarabinský (born 12 March 1944 in Jarabina, Czechoslovakia) is a former Czechoslovak football player and later a football manager of Slovak origin.

Jozef Regec

Jozef Regec (born 29 March 1965 in Kežmarok, Prešov) was a Czechoslovak national bicycle team member between 1986 and 1993 and Czech between 1993 and 2000.

Ladislav Móder

He was born in Tvrdošovce and spent most of his playing career with ŠK Slovan Bratislava, winning the Czechoslovak league in 1970 and the Czechoslovak Cup in 1968.

Letov Š-1

The Letov Š-1 was a Czechoslovak single-engined, two-seat biplane surveillance aircraft, it was first military aircraft built in Czechoslovakia.

Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak statesman, sociologist, philosopher, and the first President and founder of Czechoslovakia

Otakar Kouba

Otakar Kouba (born October 24, 1906, date of death unknown) was a Czechoslovak canoer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Pavel Přindiš

Pavel Přindiš (born August 17, 1961 in Olomouc) is a Czechoslovak-Czech slalom canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Pavlína Jobánková

Pavlína Jobánková (born December 3, 1973 in Nymburk) is a Czechoslovak-Czech sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s.

Přednosta stanice

Přednosta stanice is a 1941 Czechoslovak movie, starring the then star comedian Vlasta Burian.

Roy Gutman

While European Bureau Chief, from late 1989 to 1994, he reported on the downfall of the Polish, East German, and Czechoslovak regimes, the opening of the Berlin Wall, the unification of Germany, the first democratic elections in the former Eastern Bloc, and the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia.

Russian Constituent Assembly

The Committee had the support of the Czechoslovak Legions and was able to spread its authority over much of the Volga-Kama region.

Scouting and Guiding in the Czech Republic

The Czechoslovak government-in-exile officially restored Junák and Czech and Slovak Scout groups were founded in exile, especially in the North of England and the South of Scotland, Rover Crews were founded in the Czechoslovak Armed Units in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Slovenský rozhlas

Slovenský rozhlas manages the Slovak Radio Children's Choir, founded in 1953 and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (SOSR), founded in 1929 as the Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Statue of Lenin, Seattle

Venkov's work was completed and installed in Poprad, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), in 1988, shortly before the fall of Czechoslovak communism during the 1989 Velvet Revolution.

Stefan Lux

Stefan Lux (November 11, 1888 Malacky – July 3, 1936 Geneva) was a Slovak Jewish journalist, and a Czechoslovak citizen, who committed suicide in the general assembly of the League of Nations during its session on July 3, 1936.

Štefan Svitek

Stefan Svitek (chesh. Štefan Svitek) (January 23, 1960, Podbrezová, Banská Bystrica Region, Czechoslovakia - June 8, 1989, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) - Czechoslovak recidivist, in 1987, an extremely cruel manner killed his pregnant wife and two daughters.

Tatra 603

To the west of the Iron Curtain the car was unknown, though some were used by Czechoslovak embassies in western capitals.

The Territory of White Deer

The series was screened on Czechoslovak Television, on German ZDF, Super RTL and Kinderkanal and several times on Czech Television as well.

Tofa

TOFA (TOys FActory), Czechoslovak toy company based in Semily

Tupolev SB

In 1937, negotiations were successfully concluded between the Soviet and Czechoslovak governments for the supply of SB bombers and a licence for local production in exchange for the right to produce the Skoda 75 mm Model 1936 mountain gun.

Ukradená bitva

Ukradená bitva (German title: Die gestohlene Stadt) is a 1972 East-German/Czechoslovak film based on the life of Christian Andreas Käsebier.

Veřejná bezpečnost

The work of the VB was portrayed in the very popular 1970's Czechoslovak police procedural Thirty Cases of Major Zeman (Třicet případů majora Zemana), which consisted of thirty hour long programmes each documenting a year between 1945 and 1975, mostly inspired by real cases but still heavily skewed to Communist ideology.

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford

In 1938, Runciman returned to public life when the new Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, sent him to Czechoslovakia to see if he could obtain a settlement between the Czechoslovak government and the Sudeten Germans in the Sudetenland.

William N. Oatis

William Nathan Oatis (January 4, 1914 – September 16, 1997) was an American journalist who gained international attention when he was charged with espionage by the Czechoslovak government in 1951.


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