Leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Marshal Tito is greeted and decorated by Czech President Edvard Benes in the Prague Castle (Hradčany, 119 08 Prague 1, Czechia). Cheering spectators on the sidelines as a car containing Russian Marshals Ivan Konev and Pavel Rybalko drives past. Russian officers in the car waving to the spectators. Czech girls waving flower bouquets. Crowds throw flowers at staff car. The Marshals review an honor guard accompanied by Commander-in Chief of Czech Army General Ludwig Svoboda. A building decorated with Czech signs that read “LONG LIVE THE RED ARMY” and “LONG LIVE MARSHAL KONEV” and “LONG LIVE GENERAL STALIN”.
Monuments in Prague, Czechoslovakia. View of the modern office buildings in Prague. Pedestrian and automobile traffic on street. A policeman directs traffic. Exterior of the Czernin Palace (Loretánské nám. 5, 118 00 Praha 1-Hradčany, Czechia). People passing and Czech inscriptions on the arcades. Flag on president's palace in Prague Castle. A statue in the foreground.
Monuments in Prague, Czechoslovakia. People pray in the St Vitus cathedral (III. nádvoří 48/2, 119 01 Praha 1-Hradčany, Czechia). Exteriors of the St Vitus cathedral. Tombs of the kings of the old Bohemian Empire. People fill water in a bucket. A street in Prague’s historic center. Exterior of a cathedral. The Vltava River in Prague. People walking on Charles Bridge (Karlův most, 110 00 Praha 1, Czechia). The Statues of Madonna, Saint Dominic and Thomas Aquinas on Charles Bridge.
National Sports Festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 16,000 gymnasts take to the field at the closing ceremony of National Sports Festival in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Gymnasts perform precision drill of mass calisthenics. Beautiful formations are formed.
A film on 1918 celebrations of independence as the Hapsburg reign ends in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Czecho-Slovak troops look out from a railroad train window as they arrive in Prague. Troops stand holding their flag. The troops arrive from Austria. People cheer as troops march. People cover the statue of Joseph Radetzky von Radetz in front of the Radetzky Memorial. Cartoons and caricatures of Kaiser and Crown Prince. Pictures of the cabinet members of Czechoslovakia. Troops depart form Slovakia to hold the Hungarian border on horse carts and horses. Battisti, the brother of the executed Italian deputy in a car. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Czechoslovakian Chief of Police swears in new officers in Prague’s Old Town Square (Staroměstské nám., 110 00 Josefov, Czechia). Police troops parade around Old Town Square and surrounding streets. Czechoslovakian Interior Minister Vaclav Nosek meets Security-Service General Frantisek Janda. Vaclav Nosek speaks to assembled officers and Catholic priests.