Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

"A well-mannered - even if slightly rebellious - slave will never get along with a man who has fought for his freedom by his own efforts and with the commitment of his life." Tomáš Pecina

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Yesterday I saw the premiere at Cinema City Metropol in Zličín. Its lasting message is still valid today. Against evil, the only force that evil respects is strength. Eternal "muddling through" without concrete actions cannot lead to victory, only to repeated defeats. The film brilliantly shows the unity of character, thought and action. The resistance group of the Mašín brothers was offered a film by Hollywood and made millions of dollars. They didn't have time, they wanted to join the fight in the US Army as soon as possible. More proof of their great character! The Mashins were not soldiers, they gave the order themselves. They demonstrated incredible moral maturity and strength of character. These qualities can only be appreciated by those who recognize these values themselves. How many such people will be among the honoured at Prague Castle?

From an interview with the actor Oskar Hes, who plays Josef Mašín: "What can get me out of my chair is the hypercorrectness, hyper-sensitivity and weak-mindedness of some people. It annoys me how many young people take everything personally, or get caught up in their own thoughts and solve something just to solve something. We live in freedom and prosperity, but a lot of people around me are on anti-depressants. It seems to me that they're having a bad time and then they give up. In my bubble in Prague, young people don't have an existential crisis, they have a spiritual crisis. They don't know what to fight for. We used to have a given enemy, now we don't have one and we are an enemy to ourselves. We lack motivation. We have to find a reason to do something, to work, to bring children into the world, to live."

The film BRATŘI rightly won. It is a world rarity that it did not receive any other award. The director Tomáš Mašín did not appear on stage, but the Czech Television cancelled two of his projects and he is out of a job - another world rarity, or rather Czech...

Nothing but another hidden revenge of the totalitarianism's minions. Calling on the Oscar winner to end her performance was a demonstration of Czech plebeianism - see the incredible babbling of the author of the call. Equally shameful and embarrassing was the calling of Jiřina Bohdalová a "national monument" by Mark Eben. He was far from the refinement expected in such a solemn act - he did not even apologise...

Kristýna Roháčková, a film publicist for the Czech Radio, praised the scandalous film ÚSVIT, which should have been sent to the Oscars instead of BRATŘI because it supposedly lacked a deep, topical idea? What could be more topical today than the fight for freedom against a criminal system through the example of brave young men? Are women going to join the army in equal numbers, in the name of equality, and men pushing prams? By the way, the term "pigeon nation" describes our nature well, but in a different way than most suspect. It arose from the ancient penchant of the Czechs for eating pigeons, when they were literally killed "en masse". We dared to eat pigeons, just like the defenceless Czech Germans after 1945... By the way, the lion never lived on the territory of our country. We can still only dream about its qualities of "fighting like a lion"...

That's why we have an army that has never defended its territory, surrendered weapons to the enemy or directly collaborated with them in the last 100 years. Therefore, let us not be surprised at the present conditions in the country - they are only the logical consequence of the crooked character of the past, when the country was ruled by crooked characters, as it is today. JŠ

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