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Czech priests Jan Bula and Václav Drbola were honoured on May 20 during the Blessed Martyrs Under Communism conference in Rome, which highlighted the persecution of Christians under Communist regimes. The event took place ahead of their beatification on June 6 at the Brno Exhibition Centre and marked the final stage of a process lasting […]
This month it is exactly 75 years ago that the communists finally seized power in Czechoslovakia (at the time, the current Czech Republic and Slovakia formed one country). In all the countries that would disappear behind the Iron Curtain after the Second World War, a similar process took place of the elimination of pro-democratic forces and the establishment of the dictatorship of the communist party. In Czechoslovakia, however, this took longer, which is why many people – both among the democratically minded Czechoslovaks and in the West – harbored the illusion for the longest time that the country would be spared an ‘equalisation’.
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