This is the fifth in a series about the 16 triumphant teams in the European Championship before the 17th edition is played in Germany next year. So far, we’ve looked at the USSR in 1960, Spain in 1964 ...

Thirty years on since the breakup of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic enjoy a harmonious relationship 31 December marked the 30th anniversary of the break-up of Czechoslovakia; one of ...

PRAGUE -- Viewed from Prague, the images of Russian tanks streaming into Georgia earlier this month carried inevitable echoes. Many commentators and politicians around the world have made comparisions ...

Any efforts to resist the regime were definitively crushed in August 1969. After the representatives of the Czechoslovak government returned from negotiations in Moscow at the end of August 1968, ...

PRAGUE – If Scotland says yes to independence in Thursday's referendum, there might be a lesson to learn from the amicable split of Czechoslovakia on Jan. 1, 1993. Known as a "velvet divorce," the ...

The successor to the former state producer of maps, the Harmanec Military Cartography Institute (VKU) has decided to release a special historical map of the former Czechoslovak Republic. The map, ...

On August 21, 1968, Soviet troops and their Warsaw Pact allies invaded Czechoslovakia to bring an end to that country's brief period of political liberalization, called the Prague Spring. About ...

During the Cold War, Czechoslovakia stood apart from some of its Warsaw Pact partners by developing its own small arms. This included the Sa vz. 23, a “no-frills” submachine gun that was ahead of its ...

For a few ominous days last week, it looked as though the Soviet army was about to invade Czechoslovakia and smash the reforming regime of Party Boss Alexander Dubček. Out of War saw crackled the news ...

The tremors emanating from Czechoslovakia’s extraordinary wave of reform not only shook the country itself but spread through all of Eastern Europe. In Prague, Party Boss Alexander Dubcek, chief ...