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Elaborate Soviet-Era Hoax Duped Czech Refugees

Officials set up fake border posts to trick people who were fleeing

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 8, 2012 6:16 PM CDT

(Newser) – They called it Operation Stone, and the elaborate ruse cost the lives or at least the freedom of scores of Soviet-era Czech refugees. As the Telegraph explains, Czech officials set up fake border posts near the border with Germany from 1948 to 1951. Those trying...   Read full story »

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