The first person to find the body lying in the stone courtyard of the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry at 6:15 a.m. on March 10, 1948, was a janitor. Clothed in pajamas, the corpse was cold, lying face ...

Jiri Hajek first revealed himself to be a Communist during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion ...

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In the early hours of March 10, 1948, the body of Czechoslovakia’s foreign minister was found beneath a window of the ministry’s palace in Prague. The official explanation was suicide. The public ...