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How to escape from a wired 'peace camp'? The strictly guarded borders of communist Czechoslovakia with West Germany and Austria became the scene of thousands of tragedies, where brave souls attempted to flee from the 'camp of peace and socialism' surrounded by barbed wire. The Czech death wall and its creator, How Men Turned into Frogs, Merging with the Tree Trunk, or Slovak Icarus – the chapter titles of the book sound rather surreal in the current context, but from 1948 to 1989, they referred to a ruthlessly bloody reality and confirmed the extraordinary ingenuity of people yearning for a life in freedom. A renowned journalist comments on forty examples of the regime's repression, which, according to contemporary statistics, managed to thwart more than 90 percent of escapes 'over the hills', presenting them as a memento for a time that has already begun to suffer from a loss of memory on a political level. Narrators: Bára Štěpánová, Jiří Hromada, and Pavel Soukup Duration: 11 hours 44 minutes
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Author: Navara Luděk
Publication date: November 29, 2019
Manufacturer: Radioservis a. s.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts
Type: Audiobooks on mp3 cd
ISBN/EAN: 8594169483177