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3 unusual facts about Vladimír Clementis


The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Kundera also describes a photograph from 21 February 1948, where Vladimír Clementis stands next to Klement Gottwald.

Vladimír Clementis

In 1948, in his new role, he played a decisive role in organising Czechoslovakian's part of the Operation Balak by providing a help to the newly founded Israeli Air Force.

In the famous photograph from 21 February 1948 (the story is described in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera), Vladimír Clementis stands next to Klement Gottwald, who later, after a coup d'état, became the President of Czechoslovakia.



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