The year 1953 cannot really be described as historically insignificant. Judge for yourself: at the beginning of March, Joseph Stalin dies at his dacha near Moscow. Czechoslovak President Klement Gottwald caught a cold on the way from the generalissimo's funeral, and a few days later a state funeral was also planned in Prague. Antonín Zápotocký becomes the second workers' president.

The image of a cheerful man from the people brings him many supporters, but he loses most of them on the first day of June, when the currency reform is announced.

The controversial Mašín brothers shoot their way to the dream West, Elizabeth II is crowned in London. and John Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. They still have ten years ahead of them - until the fatal shots in Dallas, Texas. However, no more days await the Rosenbergs, who are executed for allegedly revealing the secret of the atomic bomb to the Soviets.

Television starts broadcasting in Czechoslovakia, a human foot sets foot on the highest mountain in the world for the first time, and the world's first Helpline is established in London.