T. G. Masaryk - Chocen, Czech Republic
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The bust of first president of Czechoslovakia.
Waymark Code: WMN19B
Location: Pardubický kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 12/06/2014
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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. He originally wished to reform the Habsburg monarchy into a democratic federal state, but during the First World War he began to favour the abolition of the monarchy and, with the help of the Allied Powers, eventually succeeded.
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Description of the statue: the bust, on a stone granite foundation wall approximately 1,5 meter high. The statue is in front of local primary school.