Monitorujeme 1454 zdrojov
Britské listy.cz 14.09.2026 01:34 This paper was originally published in the volume Scotland and the Slavs: Selected Papers from the Glasgow '90 East-West Forum, Nottingham, England : Astra Press, 1993..
Edwin Muir spent three years in Prague shortly after the war
as a professor at Charles University and as director of the British Council. I
had the honour to be his pupil. He certainly belonged among those serene
personalities whose influence I deeply felt not only in my formative years, but
even much later.
1945 was a watershed year for Czechoslovakia. For our
country, the war ended on 5th of May, but the American army was not permitted
to enter the capital because General Eisenhower was afraid that a swift advance
by the Americans would antagonize Stalin. It had been agreed that Prague would
be liberated by the Russians. On the 9th of May, the Soviet soldiers finally
appeared in Prague after a long march from Berlin. What was called the Prague
Uprising started on 5th of May 1945. The turmoil lasted for a few days and then
subsided as the Germans gradually withdrew from the city.
