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Posted on 03/11/2008 8:06:02 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
After 30 years, Navratilova's Czech again
Tue Mar 11, 3:12 AM ET
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova said Tuesday she has regained Czech nationality more than 30 years after fleeing communism in the country of her birth to live in the United States.
"I lost it at the time I defected. I got it back on January 9," Navratilova told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo.
The 51-year-old former world champion said she was maintaining dual nationality and keeping her US passport.
Born in Prague, Navratilova fled to the United States in 1975 at the height of the Cold War, angering communist authorities who stripped her of her nationality. She became a US citizen six years later.
But Navratilova said last year that while she was once ashamed about Czechoslovakia, she was now ashamed of the United States under President George W. Bush.
"The thing is that we elected Bush. That is worse! Against that, nobody chose a communist government in Czechoslovakia," she told the Czech daily Lidove Noviny.
Czechoslovakia split in 1993 after the fall of communism into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Navratilova has said that she left home because authorities refused to let her play tennis in the United States, where the vast majority of tournaments were then held.
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The U.S. does not recognize dual citizenship. She can stay in Czech and say that all she wants but as for the U.S., she’s a citizen only of the U.S. and will be treated as such by U.S. authorities, unless she revokes her U.S. citizenship.
F**k off, bitch. You don't deserve it.
-ccm
GRRREAT!
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AFAIK, we don't. The United States does *not* recognize "dual-citizenship", legally. It's just that the State Department hasn't got the cojones to collect her US passport...
the infowarrior
Yikes! Ochin krasivaya devushka!
A lot of irony here . . .
That she has the option to be Czech again, and that Reagan won ‘the neverending war - detente’, to do it.
Ah, well.
Actually - officially, I believe the US DOES recognize “dual citizenship” for people from certain nations. I believe Israel is one of them.
Thats a man.
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