Where was the State Security actually located? Everywhere and nowhere, you might say. Apart from the notorious building on Bartolomějská Street, the so-called "Bart'ák" and "Kachlíkárna" in Prague 7, there were a large number of departments of the National Security Corps, the Federal Ministry of the Interior of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Ministry of the Interior and Environment (!) of the Czechoslovak Republic, which were hidden in dozens of addresses all over Prague. Not to mention the hundreds of meeting apartments and rooms scattered in residential houses where secret StB collaborators met discreetly with their "governing bodies", or the hundreds of other observation rooms and technical facilities. We invite everyone to an educational walk through Prague with historian Prokop Tomek, who will guide you near the places from where the State Security monitored, photographed and filmed the objects of its interest.
As a rule, the State Security "monitors" did not learn what the so-called object of their interest was talking about with people on the street or in restaurants. Often they did not even know exactly why they were following him at the request of their colleagues from the StB operatives. Their task was to discover, record and often document, photographically or on film, exactly what the "object" was doing, how he behaved, where, when and with whom he met, whether he handed over or received anything. Who today knows Mrs. Hamplová's Kitchen or the TV micro-centre Conservatory?
The walk gives the opportunity to look at Prague in a different way, at its hidden history.
The Museum of the Memory of the XXth Century cordially invites all interested to an educational walk through Prague with historian Prokop Tomek, PhD.You can expect an approximately one-hour walk in the vicinity of the places from where the State Security monitored, photographed and filmed the objects of its interest as well as ordinary residents and visitors to Prague.
Date and place of the meeting: 8 June 2022 at 5 pm in front of the statue of Charles IV at the Old Town Bridge Tower on Křižovnice Square.
The whole event is free of charge.
For further information, please contact: jan.samohyl@mpxx.cz
(Excerpts from Prokop Tomek's text were used in the annotation.)
The historical walk is financially supported by ČSOB.
