Firmly situated behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, Czechoslovakia’s fall to the Soviet Union after the Second World War was followed by decades of communist rule. Electric fences, border guards and surveillance systems meant to keep its people from escaping to West Germany and Austria, which were aligned with the capitalist West, were the physical manifestation of the deep ideological divide that had split the world at the time. The Czech Republic was one of two nations that emerged from the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1992. With the war in Ukraine, the ideological divide reared its...