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Count Leopold Sternberg shows visitors around his expropriated castle Sternberk in Bohemia, in which he was permitted to stay as a tourist guide. In 1956 the count could leave for Austria. Since the end of Communism, the castle has been restored to the family.
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Count Leopold Sternberg shows visitors around his expropriated castle Sternberk...

Czech officer and daughter resting on a bench in       
Plzen(Pilsen).
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Czech officer and daughter resting on a bench in Plzen(Pilsen).

Factory gates are full of slogans all over             
Czechoslovakia. Here, a female soldier talks to an     
airforce officer.
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Factory gates are full of slogans all over Czechoslovakia. Here, a...

Monument for Hussite leader Jan Zizka, whose troops beat an Imperial Catholic army near Prague in 1420.    
Prague, 1956.
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Monument for Hussite leader Jan Zizka, whose troops beat an Imperial Catholic ar...

Foreign movies,like the French film "Count of Monte    
Christo" enjoy great popularity among the Czech public.
Wenzeslas Square,Prague
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Foreign movies,like the French film "Count of Monte Christo" enjoy great pop...

Lunch at the Waldstein-Restaurant one of the best      
in Prague in Communist times.
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Lunch at the Waldstein-Restaurant one of the best in Prague in Communist t...

A shop window in dowtown Prague, 1956.
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A shop window in dowtown Prague, 1956.

End of shift at the Hlubina coalmine in Ostrava,       
Czechoslovakia,1956.
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End of shift at the Hlubina coalmine in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia,1956.

New houses go up in the outskirts of Prague.
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New houses go up in the outskirts of Prague.

A blind man sells the official catholic newspaper      
in front of a Prague church.
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A blind man sells the official catholic newspaper in front of a Prague chu...

Food is plentiful in Czechoslovakia.An elderly         
gentleman inspects sausages and canned meat in a       
Prague shopwindow,1956.
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Food is plentiful in Czechoslovakia.An elderly gentleman inspects sausa...

Czech worker building his house
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Czech worker building his house