Whilst the war in Europe finished on 8 May 1945, it was only in August that the Czechoslovak RAF airmen were permitted to return to their homeland.
The three months delay was due to a combination of factors. Primarily the Russians using delaying tactics who were intent on ensuring that the key infrastructure of liberated Czechoslovakia was under their control. This was compounded further with politics between the American’s and British who sought not to antagonise their Russian WW2 ally, while Zdeněk Fierlinger, the left-wing new Czechosloslovak Prime Minister was intent on support for his country’s Russian liberators.
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