Title: Na večné časy
Photographer(s): Václav Chochola, Zdeněk Tmej, Tibor Honty, J. Pacovský,
V. Pasáček, J. Houdek, J. Kouřil, J. Čvančara
Writer(s): S.K. Neumann
Designer(s): Dobroslav Foll
Publisher(s): Svět sovětů, Praha, Czech Republic
Year: 1955
Print run: 10.400
Language(s): Czech
Pages: 188
Size: 21,5 x 30 cm
Binding: Hard cover with dust jacket
Edition: 2nd Svět sovětů, Praha, Czech Republic,1956 - 10.000 copies, 3rd Svět sovětů, Praha, Czech Republic,1959- 8.000 copies
Print: Svoboda, Praha, Czech Republic
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Czech Republic, 1945
ISBN:
The liberation from the Nazi invasion retraced by Czech photographers, moments with women and children alternate with details of the faces of unnamed Soviet soldiers and also views of devastated Prague, particularly of its centre... Joy, flowers, welcome, embrace.
One can recognise: the Palacký Bridge towards the Emmaus Monastery; the upper part of Wenceslas Square with the corner building that later became the House of Food; Hradcany Square; Loreto; the Astronomical Clock; a shot of Pařížská Street and part of St. Nicholas Church or the Týn Church and Master Jan Hus standing in front of it.
A photo of the ceiling of Žižka Square in Tábor. On it Žižka, with club in hand, points to a group of soldiers standing at his feet and looking away. And the soldiers have (compared to other photos) a serious expression, as if they are waiting for an overwhelming verdict...