Influenced by their father, who fought against the Nazi regime in World War II, Radek and Joseph Masin were determined to escape the totalitarian communist movement. While fleeing the country and the ...
PRAGUE – Ctirad Masin, a controversial anti-communist fighter in the former nation of Czechoslovakia who eluded a massive East Bloc manhunt during the Cold War, has died at age 81. Czech public radio ...
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech anti-communist resistance fighter who shot his way to freedom in a daring 1953 escape that embarrassed Cold War totalitarian rulers died on Saturday in the United States, ...