Word: skoda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...different, deadlier contest. Two thousand tons of arms and ammunition, more than all Central America has received in the last 30 years, were pouring out of the holds of a Swedish ship into Communist-infiltrated Guatemala. They were Communist weapons, almost certainly from Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda works. More were thought to be on the way, in two more freighters...
...Indo-China, "international Communism" is trying to gain "a stranglehold on the people," said Dulles, and its agent is Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh. Ho's armies "are supplied with artillery and ammunition . . . much of it fabricated by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and transported across Russia and Siberia, and then down through China to Viet...
...which runs south into the huge Viet Minh concentration in northern Viet Nam, crucial sector of the war. The Reds are well supplied with artillery, mortars and recoilless cannon, as well as machine guns and automatic hand weapons. Some of the enemy's arms come from the big Skoda works in Czechoslovakia. In the seven years of war, the Viet Minh have suffered about 200,000 casualties, but, by force and persuasion, they have built their army bigger than ever...
...most complete report of what happened came not from the usual "well-informed sources" but from the Reds' own Pravda of Pilsen, center of the giant Lenin (formerly Skoda) Works. It was written in Communist doubletalk, but remarkably candid for all that: "On June 1, some politically unaware workers let themselves be persuaded into believing that the currency reform was aimed at them, and that they would not be able to live on their new wages and would go hungry. They staged antistate demonstrations ... In the town hall rioters tore down pictures of Czech state leaders and hung...
...Badura, his father, died when Paul was four months old. His stepfather is named Skoda (no kin to the Czech munitions family), and the pianist uses both names...