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27 June 2007

Today is...

the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Communism here in Czech Republic. It commemorates the day when a lady named Milada Horáková and some of her colleagues were convicted and subsequently executed in 1950 by the Communist régime in Czechoslovakia.
57 years on, former Czech Ambassador to the US and current deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Vondra commented that the KSČM is the strongest communist party in Europe. It is the only communist party in Europe that has not renounced its actions between 1945 and 1989, and continues to be the third-largest party in the Czech Chamber of Deputies.

I don't really expect the Party to renounce its actions; torture and espionage is what communism does by its very nature. However, how anyone could consider it as a morally valid course of politics is simply appalling. 100 million dead later, it continues to seduce. The Evil Empire has fallen; the Evil remains.

1 Comments:

Blogger paul said...

I commemorated Mrs. Horakova in my own contribution spatnou cestinou to Lidovka, in the article interviewing her daughter Jana. I also mentioned that it was shameful that the American singer Paul Robeson held a concert on Letna Plan the day she was murdered. He didn't raise his voice in protest because he felt his fellow communists could do no wrong. Some people still worship him in the U.S. I hope the plans for a film on Mrs. Horakova's life reach fruition.

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