czechoslovakia

2 min read 2022-01-10 15:00:00

This way of our democracy seems to me rather unfortunate

Through different eyes. By Jiří Weigl In early December, a global online summit on democracy was organised by US President Biden. In the face of

3 min read 2022-01-08 02:17:55

German tanks are lauded as being some of the most advanced armored vehicles of WWII. Although extremely complex and unable to be produced in the

2 min read 2022-01-05 20:45:00

The Czech Pirate Party was founded in 2009 and at the beginning, it was mostly meant to be a one-dimensional, anti-copyright party promoting Napster

2 min read 2021-12-29 16:03:00

By Milan Smutný Starting from the position of a "hungry" opposition, politicians from Germany's ruling Green coalition party have not only

4 min read 2021-12-27 20:45:58

“Because when I read, I don’t really read; I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop, or I sip it like a liqueur

2 min read 2021-12-27 15:14:00

Last month, a great majority of my nation already buried the president, Miloš Zeman, who spent a week at the ICU. Most people thought he had the

2 min read 2021-12-22 13:10:00

The French bank Société Générale owns a majority of a top 3 Czech bank by size, KB (Komerční banka which translates as The Commerce Bank); I am

2 min read 2021-12-20 16:43:00

I surely expected the Czech government's policies to get more incorrect and more suicidal after the five-headed monster took the power (OK, what is a

5 min read 2021-12-20 16:00:00

I was born and raised in Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain dividing the free and communist worlds during the Cold War. My education included

2 min read 2021-12-19 21:29:00

One for Covidism and one for the electric vehicles... Slovak-born billionaire Andrej Babiš has been a top Czech government official for 8 years. In

4 min read 2021-12-19 21:00:13

We’ll be gathering around the holiday table for — wait, what was that again? My Christmas season in 1991 was spent in the city of Košice

2 min read 2021-12-17 01:30:00

But the "journalists" and anti-freedom activists only scream when such things occur in Belarus etc. In October, I wrote about the Slovak

2 min read 2021-12-14 00:12:00

In 1940, Czechoslovak and Polish pilots were providing the U.K. with vital help needed to prevail in the Battle of Britain. Many of these very

2 min read 2021-12-11 13:19:00

Willie sent me these thoughts The Power of the Powerlessthat Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab.com (an independent alternative of Twitter's) wrote two

2 min read 2021-12-02 16:30:00

By Václav Klaus, Czech ex-president Many things are not discussed enough in our relatively small economic community, and even fewer are discussed to