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White Pine Pictures: Ma Vlast (My Homeland): The Jiraneks in Canada

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Michael and Renata Jiranek defected from Czechoslovakia in 1968 after the Russian invasion of Prague. They settled on a farm in Alberta and began to teach figure skating. One of their students was Kurt Browning who became a world figure skating champion. This site gives background to a television documentary about the Jiraneks.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional