WE SHALL NEVER SURRENDER – part 6 – What came after the war (6.5.2020 16:00)
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In the final episode of this historic series dedicated to the Czechoslovak-British wartime connections, we will speak about what happened to those connections after May 8, 1945, when peace was declared in Europe.
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