Ahoj, Monday! Your morning cup of Prague

A quick guide to start the week ahead with news, tips, and hacks for Prague and Czech Republic.

Expats.cz Staff

Written by Expats.cz Staff Published on 21.08.2023 07:30:00 (updated on 26.08.2023) Reading time: 2 minutes

📰 WEEKEND NEWS RECAP

✔️TO DO THIS WEEK

❓ POLL OF THE WEEK

Last week, we asked you which of the world's top food fast food brands without a presence in the Czech Republic you'd most like to see on the local market. Tex-mex was the big winner, with 30 percent voting for Taco Bell and 22 percent for Chipolte.

This week, we're wondering: as local companies condense space with people continuing to regularly work from home, do you mind sharing your desk at work?

Do you like to share your desk at work?

I don’t mind working at a random desk (hot desking). 9 %
I would share but want to have the same desk (desk sharing). 6 %
I need my own space in the office. 39 %
I prefer to work from home. 42 %
My work doesn’t involve a desk. 4 %
145 readers voted on this poll. Voting is closed

📻 LISTEN ON YOUR MORNING COMMUTE

August 21 marks the 55th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia, when Soviet tanks rolled into the country to suppress the flourishing Prague Spring.

This episode of the Cold War Conversations podcast with journalist Lani Seelinger of Socialism Realised charts the history of Prague Spring leading up to the invasion, one of the iconic moments of the Cold War.

📺 WHAT TO STREAM THIS WEEK

Documentary filmmaker Rudolf Krejčík's Seven Days to Remember, largely comprised of footage shot on the streets of Prague in late August, 1968, is one of the definitive portraits of the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovkia.

Krejčík's footage was smuggled to Canada following the invasion, where actor and Czech émigré Jiří Voskovec gave it an English-language narration that would describe the events to the world. The documentary is available in full on YouTube:

☕ YOUR MORNING CUP

Following the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, key figures in the underground opposition movement, including future Czech president Václav Havel, would secretly convene at Prague's Café Slavia. Five decades later, the location remains a local landmark.

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