Word: slovakia
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...Elmar Klos, was the first Czechoslovak film to create a bit stir in the United States. The warm reception it received in 1965 helped lead to the Museum of Modern Art's major festival of Czechoslovak films in 1967. Shop on Main street takes place in German-occupied Slovakia in 1942. A tragic story of a shopkeeper unable to fight German antisemitism. it is nevertheless, at times, whimsical and sentimental...
...have let it be known that attendance at religious classes will be counted against youths who want to enter Czechoslovakia's overcrowded universities. The Czechoslovak press has launched an all-out attack on religion in general and the Roman Catholic Church in particular. In Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, the most heavily Catholic region, the Communist Party organ Pravda warned readers that religion causes schizophrenia, leads to mental imbalance and encourages crime. The national army paper Obrana Lidu denounced the Vatican as the world's "greatest center of ideological subversion...
...that his program of "normalization" is almost completed. This would enable him to resist the demands of the Czechoslovak Ultras, who want a return to even stricter political controls and show trials for the liberal leaders, including Alexander Dubček, who is thought to be somewhere in Slovakia...
...Ultra-conservatives are pressing their campaign to put Dubček on trial for "crimes" committed during his leadership. Last week Radio Prague denounced him as a "renegade, traitor, revisionist and failure." For the time being, the Dubčeks reportedly plan to return to Trencin, in their native Slovakia, where Alexander's 80-year-old mother has a house. There, the ex-leader of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party is expected to be assigned to a white-collar job in a factory...
...leaders of Prague's short-lived Springtime of Freedom have long since been silenced. Alexander Dubček is variously reported on an extended vacation in Slovakia or undergoing treatment in a Prague sanatorium. Josef Smrkovsky, the onetime darling of Czechoslovak liberals, is on an enforced vacation in Bohemia. Hundreds of other officials, journalists and even schoolteachers have lost their jobs. But under the hard-line regime of Party Boss Gustav Husàk, who replaced Dubček seven months ago, the purges...