Newsletter No. 18/2015

Der Journalist Zídek ist wahrscheinlich ein grosser Bewunderer der Politik von Präsidenten Benes. Die Politik dieses Präsidenten brachte Tchechoslowakei im Jahre 1938 zum  Münchner Abkommen und im Jahre 1948 zu 40 Jahre dauernden Einparteienherrschaft. Die Vetreibung von tschechischen Deutschen verursachte im Sudetenland irreparable Wunden die bis heute nicht geheilt sind. Bis heute ist es nicht gelungen hunderte Städte und Dörfer zu besiedeln. Die Vertreibung der Deutschen hat den Zerffall der tschechischen Wirtschaft mitverursacht, das konnten wir auch in einem Film von Regisseur Hynek Bočan und von politischem Häftling, Schriftsteller Jiří Stránský sehen.

Central European Observer p. 344 – 1945

Frank Muska Authorized by Jan A. Bata 21.November 1939

Batanagar's foundation stone was placed on 28. October 1934

J.Š. 16.5.2015

By ADAM KIRSCH | September 5, 2007

Book Review

No Simple Victory

by Norman Davies

To the historian of Poland, the history of all Europe looks different. Ordinarily, Eastern Europe is thought to begin somewhere around Prague, with everything beyond relegated to mystery and backwardness. Half a century behind the Iron Curtain only deepened the traditional estrangement, making it seem natural to regard countries with very different identities as part of a monolithic Eastern Bloc. People who instinctively recognize the difference between the Germans and the Dutch feel no need to understand the difference between Ukrainians and Poles, or between Serbs and Croats — until they start to kill one another, whereupon they become examples of "age-old," unchangeable hatreds. This state of affairs has been decried over and over again by writers such as Milan Kundera, who once protested the way "a Western country like Czechoslovakia has been part of a certain history, a certain civilization, for a thousand years and now, suddenly, it has been torn from its history and rechristened ‘The East.'"

Conan O'Brien once joked that Czechoslovakia was split into two separate parts in 1993: Slovakia, and the good part. It's true that except for the occasional headline touting a Slovak economic miracle, the CR has received the better press since the two went their separate ways. Jan Telensky, a Czech-born U.K. property owner who estimates his real-estate holdings at £500m, struck back last week in the Financial Times. The Slovaks overtook the Czechs because of the Czech mentality, he said. "In Prague, they're always boasting, bullshitting and pretending, and they've always been like that," he said. "If a tree fell across the road, a car full of Czechs would turn around and take a long diversion, but a car full of Slovaks would get out and move the tree." He said he sold his Czech plastics business because he was tired of the Czech bullshit and baffle-brains. But of course he's just a complex-ridden émigré.

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