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czechoslovakia

che kuhs loh vo kee uh

  • n  a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993
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  • A banner at Betsy's house
    THE CITY marked Flag Day yesterday, and it was hopping at Betsy Ross House in Old City. Michael C. Axelrod (right), vice president of the Philadelphia Flag Day Association, holds a flag from Czechoslovakia with 48 six-pointed "Jewish" stars that may have been made by Holocaust surviors. Behind him is a framed flag with 48 sequined stars that was handmade in secret during the German occupation of ...
    June 15, 2013 - Philly.com
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  • Condoleezza Rice in International Herald Tribune
    This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government and get away with it,Rice said. "Things have changed."
  • Mirek Topolanek in International Herald Tribune
    To listen to such threats "five weeks before the 40th anniversary of the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet troops and Warsaw Pact troops ...... it's something which is perhaps not worth commenting on," Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek...

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