On Thursday, July the 15th, 1954 from offices in Westminster, Dr Barnett Stross launched a public appeal for funds to purchase rose trees for a Lidice International Garden of Peace and Friendship.
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Celebrating the Anglo-Soviet Mutual Assistance Agreement – 1942
Across the free world, shock at the news of Lidice was tempered by the announcement by Moscow Radio on Thursday, June 11th, of the highly significant announcement of the signing of an Anglo-Soviet Mutual Assistance Agreement that would see the two nations support each other in real terms for the next twenty years.
Václav Nosek 1882-1955, Good Communist, Creator of the Socialist Village
Nosek, the prime mover behind the construction of a new Lidice, was also a principal agitator at a community level and within industry, ruthless in the pursuit of the Communists’ manifesto and willing to implement totalitarian methods.