At the end of the 1950s, mopeds began to be produced in Czechoslovakia, the most famous being Stadion S11, which is nicknamed “scared pipes” or “goat’s breath”. The S22 model soon emerged, which still looked more like a moped than a motorized bicycle. The stadiums are better known than the technically related Jawetta Standard. What … Read more
Former great goalkeeper Ivo Viktor celebrated his 80th birthday this weekend. His greatest success was the triumph at the 1976 Euro and later the silver from the 1996 European Championships, which he won as an assistant coach to Dušan Uhrin. At home he was the regular of Dukla in Prague, five times in his jersey … Read more
Es begins in 1932. Two students are lying on a meadow at night at a party in Oxford and get amicably drunk, a young Englishman named Hugh Legat and a young German named Paul von Hartmann. Both will make careers in the film “Munich – In the View of War” (now in cinemas, later on … Read more
“Matěj is a primary school history teacher and loves action movies. Vašek loves all girls and especially Matěj’s sister. But tonight they get out of hand. With the help of a mixer and plutonium, he will create a wormhole that will create a shortcut in time and spin a wild adventure, “reads the annotation of … Read more
Gruber became famous in German-speaking countries, for example at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich. In 2019 he received the German Oper! Award for lifelong work. However, the journey to the top was not easy for Gruber, the DPA agency noted. She was born on December 23, 1946 in Bratislava, then Czechoslovakia, to her German … Read more
The economist Dušan Tříska, who was one of the creators of the coupon privatization, evaluates the change positively after three decades. He values democracy, capitalism and relative prosperity. He sees the problem in the fact that the Czechia is a country of assembly plants held by foreign investors. “It was no different than that foreign … Read more
Runner Kristiina Mäki finished ninth in the one-mile race in Brussels and improved her maximum in the Diamond League. The surprising Olympic finalist from Tokyo was so far the best tenth last week at the 15th in Lausanne. The race was sovereignly won by the favored Dutchman Sifan Hassan, who broke the meeting record with … Read more
In the end, the government preferred the German concern Volkswagen to the offer of the French Renault. Now, Škoda Auto from Mladá Boleslav is the driving force behind Czech exports and has long been one of the most efficient Czech industrial companies. In communist Czechoslovakia, the Škoda carmaker produced passenger cars, which were widely used … Read more
Kamila Moučková was born into the family of a communist functionary and journalist and post-war editor-in-chief of the Red Law, Vilém Nový. He also enrolled her in the Communist Party at a young age. Before that, the family had to survive the war. His father went into exile in London, where he participated in the … Read more
One of the founders of Czech quantum chemistry, Rudolf Zahradník, died on Saturday at the age of 92. The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic announced this on its website. Zahradník was the chairman of the academy in its beginnings after the division of Czechoslovakia and a founding member and chairman of the Learned … Read more