Word: skoda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. who was pinked three times by an assassin in 1948, got a token of esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...
Last week, as the Foreign Office had foreseen, Czech Premier Antonin Zapotocky went to Pilsen to celebrate liberation after his own fashion. Speaking in the assembly hall of the Pilsen Skoda works, Zapotocky said: "We shall never forget that it was our former Western allies who in Munich . . . weakened and destroyed our defenses . . . Therefore, we cannot believe that the Western capitalist states were at all concerned with our liberty and independence. If anyone fought for our freedom, really defeated and drove out the German invaders, it was solely the heroic Soviet army." Then, on behalf of the workers...