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🇸🇰🇭🇺 Our latest piece just dropped: an exclusive and clearly very real interview with Viktor Orban and Robert Fico as Hungary and Slovakia launch the V2 👇

Hungary and Slovakia launch the V-2 Komarno/Komarom -A convergence is haunting the Euro-Atlantic – the convergence of illiberalism. In recent days this convergence has been on stark display in the sister Danubian towns of Komárno, on…

🇨🇿 Kafkadesk is back with its latest podcast episode, looking at the growing social discontent in the Czech Republic, and political perspectives for 2024 👇

The VoiCEE podcast: Embattled Czech government faces resurgent populist threat Prague, Czech Republic – In this episode, Kafkadesk contributor Adrien Beauduin interviews political scientist Jiří Koubek of Charles University in Prague about the roots of nationwide social…

🇭🇺 Hungary-founded Lazy Women overcome gender stereotypes and build a new kind of feminist community in Europe.

Learn more about their actions and their latest crowdfunding initiative 👇

3 years of not so lazy rebellion: interview with Lazy Women founder Zsofi Borsi Support Lazy Women now to help them become an independent media. Budapest, Hungary – Looking at how Lazy Women, partners of Kafkadesk, overcomes gender stereotypes and build a new kind of fem…

🇸🇰 New podcast is out! In this episode, we talk about Saturday's high-stakes elections in Slovakia with political sociologist Michal Vašečka, president of the Bratislava Policy Institute

The VoiCEE podcast: Slovak parliamentary elections and how it will impact CEE and support for Ukraine Bratislava, Slovakia – In this episode, Kafkadesk contributor Adrien Beauduin interviews political sociologist Michal Vašečka, president of the Bratislava Policy Institute, about the Slovak p…

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Sad news coming in from Paris: Milan Kundera died yesterday at the age of 94.

Farewell to truly one of the greats.

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🇸🇰🇨🇿 81 years ago, the British-trained Slovak and Czech operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš ambushed the car of the notorious “Butcher of Prague” Reinhard Heydrich

On this Day, in 1942: Operation Anthropoid was carried out by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš On May 27, 1942, the British-trained Slovak and Czech operatives Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš ambushed the car of the notorious “Butcher of Prague” Reinhard Heydrich, who d…

🇨🇿🇸🇰 Tomorrow is the anniversary of Operation Anthropoid, or the daring assassination in occupied Czechoslovakia of Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's third in command.

Read our not-so-good review of the 2016 Anthropoid film 👇

CineClub: Anthropoid (2016), by Sean Ellis Revisiting old classics, discovering hidden gems and exploring the contemporary movie scene: every month, Kafkadesk’s CineClub brings you new insights and expert film reviews of the …

🇵🇱 Polish resistance hero Witold Pilecki was executed in 1948, exactly 75 years ago.

👉 Voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in 1940 to gather intelligence from the inside and organize inmate resistance, Pilecki provided the Polish underground with invaluable information about the camp which was then forwarded via the Polish resistance to the British government in London.

👉 He managed to escape from Auschwitz in 1943 to convince the Home Army to mount an operation to liberate the N**i concentration camp. In vain. He was arrested by the communist authorities in 1947, repeateadly tortured and executed on May 25, 1948.

👉 Read more about his incredible life here: https://kafkadesk.org/2021/09/19/on-this-day-in-1940-polish-resistance-hero-witold-pilecki-was-voluntarily-sent-to-auschwitz/

🇨🇿 in 1391, the Bethlehem Chapel was founded in Prague’s Old Town as the first preaching chapel in Europe

On this Day, in 1391: the Bethlehem Chapel was founded in Prague On May 24, 1391, the Bethlehem Chapel was founded in Prague’s Old Town as the first preaching chapel in Europe, cementing its central place in Czech medieval history and its pivotal role in the eme…

🇨🇿 Nearly 200 years after the First Defenestration of Prague, Czechs renewed the experience in 1618

On this Day, in 1618: the Second Defenestration of Prague triggered the Bohemian Revolt On May 23, 1618, two Catholic councillors sent by Vienna to meet with Bohemian nobles were thrown out from the upper floors of the Prague castle, triggering the Bohemian Revolt against Habsbur…

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🇱🇹🇵🇱 in 1674, the Polish military commander John Sobieski was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. He would later come to be known as the “Savior of Vienna”

On this Day, in 1674: John Sobieski was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania On May 21, 1674, the Polish military commander John Sobieski was elected King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania. He would later come to be known as the “Savior of Vienna and Western European ci…