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"By the application of certain principles, civilizations are first led to flourish - and then, by persisting in these principles in their later, hypertrophied form, to perish."
The so-called Heracleite's Law formulated by Miroslav Bárta
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The personality of Bohdan Chudoba was virtually unknown in Czechoslovakia after 1990, as if not, almost nobody knew what was really going on behind the barbed wire, in the West. Of course, there were various people trying to keep the exile alive, there was the Voice of America, Free Europe, Škvorecký with his Toronto publishing house... But we had our own worries, plans, ideas. In our everyday life, however, "exile" began to be remembered, we began to see it as part of our culture. And so there were personalities who were not such household names as Ivan Medek ("Voice of America, Vienna", as many have heard it). In 2000, under the care of Milan Drápala, the publishing house Prostor published a meritorious (and voluminous) book, On the Lost Gate of the West: an anthology of Czech non-socialist journalism from 1945-1948, with an introductory essay on Bohdan Chudoba and excerpts from his work. The chapter entitled "On a Crusade through the Twentieth Century" was written by Zdeněk Beneš and Milan Drápala; the article itself suggested that in Chudoba's case it was a bit of a "hot potato"; we learned about someone who was almost unknown until then, but we learned little enough about him to understand the nature of why he "could not be swallowed."
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Once again I took advantage of the invitation of the Ukrainians and saw an excellent performance in front of a packed auditorium. I do not speak Ukrainian, but even a "non-Ukrainian" understood the message of the time. I attach two short videos below and a small PHOTOGALLERY.
"Katherine" is a generalization that the fate of a woman is a reflection of the fate of Ukraine, a kind of sad parallel. For the audience is prepared a special story, an outstanding woman who searched for strange treasures and found a serious burden. Destiny is a journey and are we ready to accept all the punishments for our actions and pass all the tests to reach paradise? Are we responsible for our actions before men, and above all before ourselves?
Shevchenko always finds something new, mysterious that is hidden in words. He wrote with his soul, and his soul was beautiful. He felt the inner world, the human nature and psychology of Ukrainians, their feelings and nationality. His every word is filled with the history not only of Ukraine, but of something else, something deeper. Taras Shevchenko is versatile. For some he is romantic, for others he is a nationalist and a free slave. The phenomenon of Taras Shevchenko is that he is the one we want to see because it allows us to make his stories our own.
Unplanned, I attended an auction to help Ukrainian soldiers (couldn't not attend). This was my second painting (the first was at the Broadway Theatre with the baby). I was even invited on stage for a group photo. Only later did I realize that the painting by the Ukrainian painter, which represents a square in Lviv, represents buildings that are the work of a Czech architect. JŠ
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In 20 years of attending hundreds of public court hearings, I have never seen a judge unreasonably ban the media from entering. She did not issue any decision and did not justify why she issued the ban. On the instructions of Judge Jana Bochňáková, the judicial guard blocked access to two journalists - Ivan Smetana from KTV Live and myself. She made us "murderers without a corpse". I am attaching a short audio recording made just before the start of the trial.
In doing so, she unjustifiably violated the right of the public and the media to participate in and control public court proceedings as guaranteed by the Constitution of the Czech Republic. She committed the crime of abuse of power of a public official and abused the judicial guard to cover her numerous illegal practices. The police didn't deal with the situation, they said they had no competence? The police refused to even ask the judge the reason for her violation of the citizen's constitutional rights. She made no mention of the ban during the hearing. It is clear that she is concerned that the media will not continue to expose her demonstrably illegal practices and procedures. There was no reason for the judicial guards to intervene. She was on our side, but she could not have acted except to obey the illegal order of the judge who abused her. In a private conversation, the judicial guard asked me: "What is the name of your website?" She accepted my card. She was undoubtedly aware of the judge's unjustified order and clear illegal actions. At the hearing, she was silent, failed to factually justify and document in writing her unlawful conduct. Another violation of the law.
The judge must bear any criticism from the media, much less a true one. If she is of a different opinion, she can file a lawsuit against the journalists after the fact, not punish them in advance for its possible occurrence. She has thus knowingly abused her statutory powers in the interests of her own protection and her own knowing violation of the law, if we exclude the ability to fail to perform the function due to limited intellectual capacity. She elevated illegality to the status of legality and flagrantly violated the Constitution, including the prohibition against censorship.
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"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."
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Petrynenko's final song, "Lord God have mercy on us", was something incredible. The "Day of Ukrainian Culture and Cuisine" at Novodvorska Street (15.10.2023) was also amazing. I attach two videos and a PHOTOGALLERY from both events.
Words of the representative of the city district: 'There is nothing to thank for, it is a matter of course'. Ukrainians have been fighting for centuries for freedom and Christianity, it is in their genes and in their hearts. They fight for us and for the preservation of sanity in the world. I have not seen any coverage in the mass media. JŠ
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