1948年2月,捷克斯洛伐克發生了以共產黨為首的政變並掌握了政權;1948年8月,利用參加英國愛丁堡國際藝術節的機會,庫貝利克“叛逃”英國,後來獲得瑞士國籍。"I had lived through one form of bestial tyranny, Nazism," he told an interviewer, "As a matter of principle I was not going to live through another."
-----Mprisonil: Honour to your grandparents! Only the true old czechoslovaks knew what they had been through! The great Vaclav Talich conducted the czechoslovak Anthem followed by Ma vlast the night the Nazis took Prague. Kubelik did the Liberation Concert in 45 and this Return Concert 45 years later! Few concerts in history are so moving as this one. It totally transcends music, history and politics! Hail the great czechoslovak people and the great former president Vaclav Havel, rest in peace!
-----my grandparents were watching this in TV while dressed in smoking & robe and we were laughing at them. I wish we knew back than……