Jan Šinágl angažovaný občan, nezávislý publicista

Published: 14 November 2010

Published in Lidove noviny (LN), 5.1.1990 - This article is no longer available in the LN archive - not even on the Internet...?!

We received from Poland a remarkable text, the Russian version of which was found in the office of former Polish President Boleslaw Bierut. It contains directives from the Moscow headquarters of the KGB, sent to a cell of that organisation working at the Soviet embassy in Warsaw. They were written in 1947. The cold methodicalness with which the KGB prepared the country's complete subordination to the interests of the superpower must still raise eyebrows today. And it also raises the question: Did the KGB cell at the USSR embassy in Prague receive similar instructions? It is not impossible, some points of the instructions are too reminiscent of the main principles of the political practice of the Communist Party in the 1950s.

A Polish translation of the instructions was published in the September 2, 1989 issue of the U.S. magazine DZIENNIK ZWIAZKOVI (Zgoda), citing the text published in the Polish newspaper. The Czech text is as accurate as possible and, given what we know of the authors, we waive any claim to beauty of style.