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Czechoslovakia was the home nation of Trump’s first wife, Ivana, a model, athlete and businesswoman who became the mother of his three oldest children: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.
So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964, Italy in 1968 and West Germany in 1972. This time, it’s the turn of Czechoslovakia in 1976.
Czechoslovakia is turning it over to nobody, and that is one reason why President Benes can confidently tell visitors that if they ask the next man they meet in the street whether he will fight ...
CZECHOSLOVAKIA (See Cover) Up the winding road to Hradčany Castle, which broods above Prague's Baroque towers and its wide, grey Vltava River, came a steady stream of Tatra limousines.
The president was Lyndon B. Johnson, and Soviet Union tanks had just rolled into Czechoslovakia on Aug. 20, 1968. Johnson’s call was to Richard M. Nixon, the Republican nominee for president, on ...
In 1938, when Hitler seized Czechoslovakia, many in its German-speaking Sudetenland region welcomed the Nazis as liberators. Just seven years later, with the Nazis defeated, they were declared ...
In Czechoslovakia, as in Poland and Hungary, nationalism has been the best argument for winning the population's support of the ruling class. The clearer the Russian threat became, the more Dubcek's ...
Former Czechoslovakia captain Novak dies at 79Ladislav Novak, who captained Czechoslovakia to the final of the 1962 World Cup in Chile, has died. He was 79. The Czech football federation said in a ...
Lubomir Strougal, who led Czechoslovakia for 18 years during the Cold War and in later years faced prosecution twice on charges related to abuse of power but was never convicted, died Feb. 6 at 98.
When Pope John Paul II visited Czechoslovakia in 1990, huge crowds turned out to greet him. But when he returned for a third, and final, visit in 1997, the crowds were embarrassingly thin.