Karel Hájek (22 January 1900, Lásenice – 31 March 1978,

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) was a Czechoslovak photographer who was represented by Schostal Photo Agency (Agentur Schostal).Rebecca Madamba (2008) The Schostal Agency: A Finding Aid for the Schostal Agency Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Thesis of the Honours Bachelors of Arts, Studies in Arts and Culture, Concentration in Curatorial Studies, Brock University. Among his best known photographs is the one of

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and Vladimir Clementis on a balcony in 1948 from which Clementis was later erased.

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Louis Fürnberg Louis Fürnberg (24 May 1909 in Jihlava, Moravia – 23 June 1957 in Weimar, East Germany) was a Czechoslovakian-German writer, poet and journalist, composer and diplomat. He wrote the '' Lied der Partei'' ("The Party is always right"), the song ...

giving a speech in front of the portraits of

and

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...

File:Prague liberation 1945 konev.jpg, Soviet Marshal Ivan Koniev in the Liberation of Prague, 1945

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hajek, Karel Photographers from Prague 1900 births 1978 deaths People from Jindřichův Hradec District Czechoslovak photographers