2 Czechs Jailed for Swastika Design
Associated Press
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia — Two men were given prison terms for making a swastika out of beer bottles and damaging a historic monument during a drunken spree, a newspaper reported Friday.
Jiri Vyskocil, 20, was sentenced to two years and his accomplice, 23-year-old Jan Kubik, was given a one-year term, said the Communist Party newspaper Rude Pravo.
The newspaper said the defendants encircled the swastika, a symbol of Nazi Germany, with flowers taken from the foot of a monument to Jan Hus, a 15th-Century religious reformer.
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