The horses were briefly housed with Janow's evacuated Arabians at Hostinec, in former Czechoslovakia.

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It was her country's first medal in Alpine events since Olga Charvatova was third in downhill for the former Czechoslovakia in 1984.

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Recently, the prime minister has addressed one of the big frozen questions of central Europe: the expulsion after the second world war of 3m-plus Germans and Hungarians from the former Czechoslovakia.

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It was in former Czechoslovakia, a place called Theresienstadt.

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Cameroon's German manager Winfried Schafer and Joseph Venglos, former manager of Czechoslovakia, will also be delivering papers.

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