Puppets

Stories From The Eastern West by Culture.pl

Mar 1, 202100:24:19Society & Culture

In 1938, Hitler's forces marched into Czechoslovakia, a country that had only gained its independence two decades earlier. A puppeteer named Josef Skupa was ready to fight back with the help of Spejbl and Hurvínek – a fa...

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