Kam zmizel zlatý poklad republiky – Motl Stanislav (2024)

About how we had to pay our allies in gold for our soldiers to die alongside them in the war against Hitler. A reporter from NOVA TV reveals the intricate fates of the gold treasure of the Czechoslovak state from its inception to its sale. The recap begins with a national collection for the republic's gold treasure and, through broader historical contexts (e.g., Munich, the activities of the exile government, the heroism of members of the foreign resistance), suggests Czechoslovakia's position after the end of World War II. The rediscovered gold treasure became the subject of endless political negotiations during the Cold War, culminating in the return of the remainder of the gold to Czechoslovakia in 1982. Motl reveals a shocking fact: the USA and Great Britain, in mutual accounting, reduced the value of the returned gold by the costs of uniforms and equipment for our western resistance members. He also focuses on the events of 1998, when the then leadership of the Czech National Bank exchanged the vast majority of the gold treasure with Germany for bonds. One of the state symbols thus irretrievably disappeared...