Prezident Edvard Beneš okem kamery
President Edvard Beneš through the eye of a camera

Summary/Abstract: Immediately after his death, the second president of the Czechoslovak Republic was ranked among the controversial figures of the country’s history. Later he even came to be seen as an out-and-out enemy. The Communists forbade people from discussing, writing about or conducting unbiased research about Edvard Beneš. He became the leading representative of the “traitorous Czechoslovak bourgeoisie” and for the next 40 years his work and democratic legacy was trashed. Only after November 1989 was some film footage of Beneš, which had been kept hidden for decades, made accessible to Czech viewers.

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