Richard Fidler
speaker
218 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Richard Fidler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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as a dissident against Nazism, and now Martin Schmidt is marked, beaten to death, as a dissident against Communism.
And so they set up this dual shrine in the Rodney Street, one for Jan Oklatal and another one for Martin Schmidt.
He does what he's charged with doing.
He brings a new democratic Czechoslovakia into being.
They've got a parliamentary system.
It's really, though, after he takes over, it's the prime minister who becomes the more powerful figure.
The country comes to a vote.
They decide to split.
They're made up of two old nations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Czechia and Slovakia.
And so hence you have that awkward portmanteau of a name, Czechoslovakia.
Well, they split.
They called that the Velvet Divorce.
into the Czech Republic and into Slovakia.
No-one was killed.
LAUGHTER Not even Martin Schmidt.
LAUGHTER
Well, I'm sure we could probably find one or two people who might have expired in prison during this.
Yeah.
The prison system is unspeakably cruel.
But it was velvet.
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