I was on my way to Vitkov, the birthplace of Jan Zajic, to participate in a ceremony honoring him. Zajic was one of the students – Jan Palach is the better known – who immolated himself to protest the August 1968 Soviet/Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Text of a speech given by Prague Society member Pavel Bratinka to a conference in the Czech Senate on 5 June 2007
Reagan – pravý muž na pravém místě v pravý čas
Prague, Feb 21, 2011 – “Marc,” Boris Pankin bellowed at me as I turned around on one of Prague's side streets. “Yes, Mr. Ambassador,” I responded, walking towards him. “Valentina says you have sympathetic eyes.
2 June, 2007
By Pavel Bratinka
Američtí prezidenti v českých zemích
Berlin, Feb 6, 2011 – The wind scurries and wails as Michael Stimson, one of two Vice Presidents at the Prague Society, and I meander along portions of the former Berlin Wall. Our breath is visible in the freezing cold.
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