Golden sixties, gray seventies. Bohdan Holomíček’s photos in the upcoming book show how we lived

Golden sixties, gray seventies.  Bohdan Holomíček’s photos in the upcoming book show how we lived

Bohdan Holomíček’s photographs are an extraordinary visual chronicle of our lives. They capture ordinary moments, such as the photographer’s father drinking water from a forest well, as well as events that went down in history – such as the year 1968. The Torst publishing house is now preparing his new book, which captures the years … Read more

Get to Know the Story of the Mašín Brothers: Films, Interviews, and Controversies

Get to Know the Story of the Mašín Brothers: Films, Interviews, and Controversies

Viewers have another opportunity to get to know the story of the group of brothers Mašín. Two films about them are coming to cinemas – one live, the other a documentary. However, one of the main heroes of the films, Josef Mašín, does not intend to come to the Czech Republic this time after many … Read more

The Mutation of Spanish Banking: Profitability, Branch Closures, and Tax Havens

The Mutation of Spanish Banking: Profitability, Branch Closures, and Tax Havens

By GERMÁN GORRAIZ FOR CANARIAS-SEMANAL.ORG.- According to the agency EFE, the great Spanish banking (Santander, BBVA, CaixaBank, Sabadell, Bankinter and Unicaja) would have obtained in the first half of 2023 and net profit of €12,566 million (22% more than in the same period in 2022), thanks to the onerous increase in commissions and interest on … Read more

Voluntary Membership Declaration in Communist Party for Election Candidates: Not Mandatory but Controversial

Voluntary Membership Declaration in Communist Party for Election Candidates: Not Mandatory but Controversial

Declaring membership in the Communist Party in the election candidate’s questionnaire is not mandatory, but voluntary, and those deputies who have not declared it have not committed any offense. “15min” journalists found the personal files of 12 ex-communists in the Special Archives of Lithuania, but six more admitted their membership in the Communist Party when … Read more

Comrades from the GDR would be amazed. Café Pelíšek offers quality Turkish, Gotťák was also there

Comrades from the GDR would be amazed.  Café Pelíšek offers quality Turkish, Gotťák was also there

Pelíšky is one of the films that Czechs can watch again and again and still never get tired of it. Those who would like to enjoy them other than on TV at Christmas can visit the cafe in Prague’s Radotín, opened by husband and wife Eva and Vladimír Barák. Time stood still there in the … Read more

Controversial Russian History Textbook Ignites Dispute Over Budapest Uprising

Controversial Russian History Textbook Ignites Dispute Over Budapest Uprising

The media got access to a draft version of a new Russian history textbook, which also focuses on the uprising in Budapest in 1956. The media got access to a draft version of a new Russian history textbook, which also focuses on the uprising in Budapest in 1956. However, Russian historians characterized all these events … Read more

Hoxha had a museum like a pharaonic pyramid. Only now has Albania rebuilt the monument to communism

Hoxha had a museum like a pharaonic pyramid.  Only now has Albania rebuilt the monument to communism

It was called the Tyrannical Pyramid. A brutalist museum built in the late 1980s in the center of Albania’s capital in honor of communist dictator Enver Hoxha has now been transformed into a computer training center for young people. According to Reuters, the small Balkan country thus removed the last vestige of a repressive past. … Read more

The Economic Crisis in Cuba: Sky-High Prices and Scarcity of Goods

The Economic Crisis in Cuba: Sky-High Prices and Scarcity of Goods

AFPOne of the few private companies in Cuba, with sky-high prices NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 21:48 Soehayla Halouchi editor online Soehayla Halouchi editor online The Cuban peso has fallen in value by 50 percent in one year. This has reached an unprecedented low point: 230 pesos are only worth one dollar on the black market. Goods have … Read more

President 3 Periods for Xi Jinping is just a matter of time

President 3 Periods for Xi Jinping is just a matter of time

Jakarta – Isu three-term president not to cause public commotion in a single-party country, People’s Republic of China (RRC). Presiden China Xi Jinping immediately confirmed as president three terms. As reported by The Guardian and Chanel News Asia, China will hold an annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) on Saturday (4/3). At the … Read more

Two days were enough for the communists. How bourgeois football was liquidated

Two days were enough for the communists.  How bourgeois football was liquidated

On Friday 27 February, just two days after the Chairman of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and Prime Minister Klement Gottwald returned from the Castle from the President of the Republic Edvard Beneš and announced the ‘victory of the working people’ to the tens of thousands gathered in the Old Town Square in Prague, fundamental … Read more