Many wishes to contact: story of a Czechoslovak invention and the myopia of the communist regime

BERLIN – This Christmas coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of an invention that has changed the lives of millions and millions of people around the world for the better: the soft contact lens. Gorgeous, you will think. But if they ask you in which country that thin soft layer was created which, when applied to the eye, frees you from glasses, what do you answer? In the US, Germany, Japan or the UK? Wrong.