We often hear stories of Czech and Slovak protestors clashing with police in 1989 during the Velvet Revolution. Just reading these words is enough for violent images from newsreels to flash into our minds. ...
Do you want to know the story behind one of the most important cultural and artistic bodies on the Slovak scene? If yes, then listen to this feature dedicated to the Slovak State Traditional Dance Company, ...
In 1992 the split of Czechoslovakia was becoming a reality after the federation's fragility took a direct blow following the victory of the party of the vocal Slovak nationalist Vladimir Mečiar in the ...
Everyone knows communism was a dark era in the history of Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia. Katarina Richterova talks to Marína Zavacká from the historical institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences about ...
26 years ago, thousands of people went out onto the streets of Bratislava, lit candles and gathered for a quiet prayer ... and the police charged against them with batons and water cannons ... this was ...
On the night of August 20, 1968 the armies from five Warsaw Pact countries crossed the border into the former Czechoslovakia. During the invasion, Soviet tanks occupied the streets. 72 Czechs and Slovaks ...
A folk legend, a peacenik and a fighter for social change, Joan Baez came to Bratislava in mid October and reignited many memories. In 1989, just before the Velvet revolution, during her performance in ...
With the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in then Czechoslovakia, and the so called Velvet Revolution that peaked on November the 17th, 1989, we bring you a special ...
It is illegal in Slovakia to deny the crimes of the fascist or Nazi regime, or to claim there was no Holocaust that claimed the lives of millions of people. Now, denying the crimes of the communist regime ...
In mid-July 2013 Slovaks buried one of their last survivors of the Soviet Gulag-Jan Košut. Born in Central Slovakia in 1926, Košut was one of about 7,000 Slovaks who experienced first-hand the horrors ...
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