Volsklist during the wars and the victory of the communists in Karviná

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… would export to Poland, so communists won the elections in Karviná.“ … during the wars and the victory of the communists in Karviná …

Sjeli se patologové z celé republiky

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… „Prvních deset vzali na patologický ústav do Karviné. To byli ti lidé, kteří nebyli postižení přímo v tom úseku. Těch deset se převezlo do Karviné a tihle měli pohřeb jako jedni z prvních. A těch …

Pathologists from all over the country arrived there

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… took the first ten corpses to the institute of pathology in Karviná. They were those who had not been killed directly in that section. These ten were transported to Karviná and they were among the first ones who had their …

Father sealed his fate for the following twenty years

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… “Until 1969 or 1970 we had a somewhat idyllic life in Karviná, where my parents were doing very well. My father … ideas that 1968 brought. Which was quite difficult in the Karviná region, as it had been a strongly Stalinist region … on TV and even called on the Russian garrison to leave the Karviná region – by doing that, he basically sealed his fate …

Útěk z vlaku

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… My jsme utekli odtud. Schovávali jsme se ve vlaku až do Karviné. Když přišel kontrolor, šli jsme na záchod. Tak jsem se dostal až do Karviné. (…) Tatík mne schoval na vodárně v Sovinci. Byl tam …

How the Porta Festival came into being

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… banned it. So we moved. The whole Porta moved and Karviná took us under its wing. In 1971 it was in Karviná. The next year it was banned there, so Sokolov, a …

Jak vznikl festival Porta

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… Celá Porta se stěhovala a pod svá křídla nás vzala Karviná. V roce 1971 byla Karviná. Další rok to tam bylo zakázané, tak to na svá bedra …

Escape from the train

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… there. We hid in trains and we travelled all the way to Karviná. When a conductor came, we hid in the toilet. This way I got all the way to Karviná. (...) My dad arranged a hiding place for me in the …

Failed welcome of the president

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… the Auxiliary Technical Battalion members from the Ostrava-Karviná coal mining district in Karviná. There were about five thousand of us and we were …

Tragedies forced the mine management to address safety issues

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… to the Coal Scientific Research Institute. The Ostrava-Karviná mine (OKR) was in decline at that time. This was … such a huge impact on the mining activities in the Ostrava-Karviná district that the issues had to be addressed. And …