of Czechoslovakia, as well as riots in Paris, Mexico City, the Democratic Convention in Chicago,
And the Czechoslovak constitution is based on the American Constitution with one difference-- it had equal rights language in it in 1918.
national team for then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic. And so she really believed in the importance of of sport
I was born in Czechoslovakia, as I've said.
In neighboring Czechoslovakia, in part of now Czech Republic and Slovakia, two countries, Vaclav Havel, the dissident, playwright, then later became the president,
and also in Czechoslovakia for -- the bulk of our hops. So.
And my father had been a Czechoslovak diplomat.
And my dissertation was about the Czechoslovak press in 1968.
But back in Slovakia-- or Czechoslovakia before-- and around the musicians, classical musicians would be counted on sort of the high ranking.
And I was born in Czechoslovakia.
There's starch of potato comes from Czechoslovakia.
Why did we go to Czechoslovakia?
And they routed these weapons through Czechoslovakia.
And they routed these Jews through Czechoslovakia.
And in 1968, in Czechoslovakia, then still Czechoslovakia, the tanks that rolled in were Soviet tanks sent down there.
control of growing up in a communist country in in then Czechoslovakia.
And it turns out the first president of Czechoslovakia married an American.
And I had traveled all over Europe from then Czechoslovakia to Belgium, et cetera.
And once you were in Poland and you watched people going to the streets in Czechoslovakia, you said, well, why not us?
No it's-- In fact, in Czechoslovakia it's called "Great Grump".
The mistake was thinking you could buy him off with a slice of Czechoslovakia.
And as a result of an agreement between the British and French with the Germans and Italians over the heads of the Czechoslovaks , the Munich Agreement
And so in one night in August, the family went to a point on the Czechoslovakian border, on the Danube,
And even towards the very end before the war, they'll annex Czechoslovakia.
guy, young guy in the Second World War, and who ended up in Czechoslovakia on one mission,
And then later, when he went back and we came to the United States-- because the communists had taken over Czechoslovakia.
Then, to go back to Tahrir Square, the opposite of what had happened in Czechoslovakia happened in Tahrir Square.
But the article, I remember, was essentially about the rise of fascism, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Toledo, Barcelona.
But I think at the time, we were competing against, in the pairs category, the top Russian, the top Czechoslovakian and Canadian teams.