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momentous ‘eights’ in czecho-slovak history

As Timothy Garton Ash put it: ‘Poland ten years, Hungary ten months, East Germany ten weeks, Czechoslovakia ten days’! ... Poland had been its origin and the main bone of contention; the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia marked the end of any hope of avoiding the division of the..

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