David Vaughan

Can we compare Russia’s behaviour towards Ukraine with the Munich Crisis of 1938?

V čem se současné kroky Ruska podobají mnichovským událostem z roku 1938

The image of Czechoslovakia in Britain and the United States is often idealized, sometimes spilling over into the realm of kitsch: the picturesque snowy landscapes of Good King Wenceslas; the plucky and democratic little republic abandoned by its Western allies to Nazi Germany and later standing up bravely to the Soviet bear; and finally led by its playwright president to freedom in 1989. A more nuanced and critical history of Czechoslovakia would certainly be welcome, but in her book Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed, the American historian Mary Heimann swings wildly to the other extreme.