Prague kicks off the 'The Technology in Dictatorships' exhibition in its National technical Museum
In this picture taken on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, visitors view the exhibition"the technology in dictatorships" at the National Technical Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
Among the latter, in what was then Czechoslovakia, was a priest in the brutally-persecuted Catholic Church named Josef Skop. Hoping to reach East Germany, before the Berlin Wall sealed off its connection with the West, he decided to cross the River Elbe undetected by walking underwater in a home-made diving suit complete with rubber boots.
Nearly 300 people are known to have died, many killed by border guards with orders to shoot on sight, while attempting to escape from Czechoslovakia to the West. It focuses on the technology used by the totalitarian regime to control its citizens – and the innovative means they used to undermine the omnipresent control.
For decades, this was enough to limit the activities of the relatively small number of dissidents who openly challenged the regime.
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