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March 7 was the birthday of the man who created modern #Czechoslovakia and the one who nearly destroyed it
- President Liberator Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937)
- Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich (1904; assassinated by Czechoslovak paratroopers, 1942)
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in my history lessons I always felt kind of solace or justification about the fact how soon Heydrich got killed by assasination .
@enigma Yes. No one deserved it more
Here is the immediate aftermath of that assassination in an animated form, featuring st. Gorazd, who provided refuge for the assassins.
Gorazd Pavlík
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Gorazd Pavlík
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@js @CitizenWald I Never learned about this resistance Network ( only learned french history)
Awesome 
It reminds me on the classic movie of the IRA founder Michael Collins .
It's not pretty history. A lot of people were killed, two towns (and their inhabitants) razed completely to the ground as retribution for the assassination.
This is a good read on the events: https://georgefranchi.com/the-assassination-of-reinhard-heydrich-was-it-worth-the-cost/
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This is a good read on the events: https://georgefranchi.com/the-assassination-of-reinhard-heydrich-was-it-worth-the-cost/
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George Franchi's blog · The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: Was it Worth the Cost? - George Franchi's blogOperation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, known as the Hangman of Prague, was conceived out of desperation. Born in September 1941, the operation was meant to achieve some sort of significant, morale-raising victory after a long series of disasters. Hitler had already conquered Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Low Countries, France, Yugoslavia and Greece. His armies were currently going from victory to victory in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. The British needed something, anything to stem the morale-killing stream of endlessly bad news. The civilians at home and the various branches of the military were in danger of sliding into a state of defeatism.