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14 days ago

Exposing ‘the illegals’: how KGB’s fake westerners infiltrated the Prague Spring

Kremlin’s most prized spies were sent in to Czechoslovakia to whip up the 1960s reform protests in a move then replicated across the eastern bloc

During the spring of 1968, as revolutionary sentiment …

43 days ago

Did my Jewish great-grandfather make chemical weapons for the Nazis? Author Joe Dunthorne on a dark legacy

The novelist was researching his grandmother’s escape from Nazi Germany when he came across a startling confession made by her father at the end of his life...

My grandmother grew up brushing her teet…

63 days ago

I was forced to flee communist Czechoslovakia at just 18 years old before moving to the UK and becoming a Bond girl with Roger Moore - he was very different to what I expected

For Anika Pavel, now 75, starring in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me was just another chapter in her extraordinary story - after fleeing her homeland of Czechoslovakia.

79 days ago

Trump’s senseless capitulation to Putin is a betrayal of Ukraine – and terrible dealmaking | Timothy Garton Ash

As the US and its European allies head to the Munich security conference, Europe must learn from its tragic history and oppose appeasement

Donald Trump’s appeasement of Vladimir Putin makes Neville Ch…

3 months ago

Secret police tricked Carlos the Jackal into fleeing Prague, archives reveal

New book casts doubt on accepted picture of communist bloc support for violent radicals during cold war

In June 1986, a pair of operatives from communist Czechoslovakia’s StB intelligence service made…

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