Jan Žižka partisan brigade 2

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VHU PRAHA Čs. výcvikový letecký kulomet vz. 28/30 VHU PRAHA. Resistance and liberation

  • Resistance:
    Czechoslovakia | Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
    Despite harsh reprisals, Czech resistance movements engaged in sabotage and other acts against the Nazi regime. A major act of resistance was the assassination of SS official Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, which led to severe reprisals against the Czech population.

  • Prague Uprising:

In the final days of the war, the Prague Uprising began on May 5, 1945, with Czech citizens rising up against the German occupiers.
Czech partisans remembered in Prague | Radio Prague International

  • Soviet liberation:

The uprising was supported by the Soviet Red Army, which launched a final offensive, the Prague Offensive, to liberate the city and surrounding areas. Soviet troops entered Prague on May 9, 1945. Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia - Wikipedia Jan Žižka partisan brigade - Wikipedia Miroslava Kaštovská (1931)

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They wanted to shoot him with a STEN gun, but this miracle of British pipe manufacturing jammed, so they threw an anti-tank grenade at the car. But Heydrich survived, despite the machine part in his stomach. He died in the hospital. The Czechs paid dearly for the death of this anthropoid.

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