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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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This is an excellent, excellent account.
Nothing is unfamiliar to me, nor do I disagree with much and I commend, especially,the very interesting analysis of how the failure of the Prague Spring in 1968 in fact also undermined the results of the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
The morale - and the morals - of people here would have been completely different and the benefit to Europe would have been much greater.
How the politics have unfolded since then has been a huge disappointment to most people and the result has been a hideous eruption of greed and corruption and a loss of the humanist values which were so embedded in the national psyche.
Havel was a fine figurehead of a President, perhaps overly loved and respected, but his political power was insufficient to counterbalance the greed of the nouveau riche who found ways to steal almost everything that wasn't nailed down.
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I hope to return to this story later but have a big work schedule
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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A very important secondary result was also the separation of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia as independent states which took place on 1st January 1983 and had NOTHING to do with the wishes of the people in either country and everything to do with the overarching ambition and ego of the dominant politicians of the day, Czech Vaclav Klaus and Slovak Vladimir Meciar and their unwillingness to share the limelight.
The people absolutely did NOT want this. I was on Slovakia at the time the Slovak parliament voted for it and watched on TV the glummest collection of browbeaten hacks who were forced to stand up individually and say yes or no.
Yuk yuk yuk.
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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Both of these egomaniacs eventually became presidents of their respective countries, controversial, grey and corrupt Klaus succeeding the widely popular and charismatic Havel, who had been imprisoned many times by the Communists, never fully recovering his health.
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gamahuche1 year, 5 months ago
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INDEED!
And I didn't return to the Czech lands until 1992 after 44 years in exile, though I was able to pay a clandestine visit to see my father in 1973, which was one of the very bleakest periods of Czechoslovak history, and a year before he died.
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