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Jun 12
There's a medieval bridge beneath Můstek.
Prague's main post office stands on one of Europe's first botanical gardens.
And before Riegrovy Sady, there was a pleasure park founded by an Italian aristocrat.
A walk through the city beneath your feet.
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Beneath Prague's streets lies a second city.
Buried bridges. Medieval herb gardens. Long-lost pleasure parks. All vanished centuries ago.
Once you know where to look, the map of modern Prague starts to make a lot more sense.
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Riegrovy sady, set in the splendour of Vinohrady.
But before the park, before the vineyards, before the city expanded this far, there was something else.
The landscape beneath modern Prague often tells a very different story from the one above it.
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Jun 13
ODS leader Martin Kupka joked today about bringing "the Euro" to the Czech Republic in 2040.
He meant the tournament, not the currency.
Kupka was signalling a softer ODS approach. The govt remains implacably against.
I explored that 🇨🇿 scepticism here:
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Jun 13
Most people walk past Prague's main post office without a second thought.
Few realise it stands on the site of a vast botanical garden once filled with exotic plants from across the world.
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Jun 11
Millions have watched this scene in Saving Private Ryan.
Two Wehrmacht soldiers emerge on Omaha Beach shouting:
"Don't shoot! I'm Czech!"
Most viewers assumed Spielberg invented it.
He didn't.
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Jun 10
Today marks the 84th anniversary of the annihilation of Lidice.
Less well known are the Prague locations where the events leading to it unfolded - places hidden in plain sight across the city.
The hidden geography of Operation Anthropoid:
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Another fabulous photo.
You know what. You know where.
(as usual from Prešpurčina ešče nezgegla! Facebook group)
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@prezidentpavel's call last week to abandon the Czech crown if it began hampering the country's development was a reminder of an issue that remains unresolved.
When - or indeed whether - to adopt the euro.
The Babiš govt appears to lean towards never.
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Colourised photo of Bratislava’s Rybné Námestie (date unknown) before the demolitions of the late 60s and 70s changed the city forever.
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A Jewish refugee parachuted into Normandy on D-Day.
He then spent the rest of the war teaching SS prisoners the truth about the Holocaust.
This is the extraordinary story of a British paratrooper who went from fighting Nazis to denazifying them in the heart of Cumbria:
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Jun 6
Nechci být hnigopych, ale např. výše vyfotografovaný plukovník Josef Elbl byl etnický Němec nikoliv Čech. viz má diplomová práce: Železný kříž a Českoslvensko dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500…
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Jun 6
Plzeňák, co oblekl tři uniformy rozličnych statnich zřízeni, aniž by se přestehoval. A nebyl zdaleka jediným.
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82 years ago today, American troops landed on Omaha Beach.
Some of the Wehrmacht prisoners they encountered spoke Czech.
The story behind one of the most surprising episodes of D-Day.
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Jun 6
The protectorate border was drawn between two villages where my relatives lived. One family, two sides of the border. Mens from german side went to the eastern front, czech side stayed and smuggled food over the border to suply women who stayed alone on the german side.
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Today marks 82 years since D-Day.
Remarkably, many of the Wehrmacht soldiers defending the Normandy beaches were Czech - mostly from the Hlučín area of Moravian Silesia.
So that infamous scene at the start of Saving Private Ryan is 100% accurate.
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One of the most memorable moments in Saving Private Ryan is historically accurate.
The men shouting “Don’t shoot! We’re Czechs!” weren’t a Hollywood invention.
Their story reveals how changing borders turned Czechoslovak citizens into Wehrmacht troops.
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It’s one of the strangest moments in Saving Private Ryan.
But historically, it's completely accurate.
A brief scene in Spielberg's film opens up a forgotten story of annexation, shifting borders and forced identities in Central Europe.
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It’s one of the strangest moments in Saving Private Ryan.
But historically, it’s completely accurate.
A brief scene in Spielberg’s film opens up a forgotten story of annexation, shifting borders and forced identities in Central Europe.
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