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Brdečková, Tereza
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
No preferential treatment for Kundera
The liberal weekly newspaper Respekt, which initiated the debate surrounding the internationally acclaimed writer Milan Kundera's purported denouncing of an opposition figure in Czechoslovakia, takes a critical view of the recent declaration of solidarity for Kundera by a group of international authors: "They are not concerned about facts, but about [Kundera's] reputation. ... Are there different rules for famous writers than that for ordinary mortals? Even if one can detect in Kundera's books traces of the fate of Miroslav Dvořáček [who was sentenced to 14 years in a labour camp], one can find no concrete proof. However the issue here is not what Kundera wrote, but what happened. What we have is a police protocol [which incriminates Kundera] and Dvořáček's fate. In a country where hundreds of thousands of innocent people were jailed and sentenced to forced labour, it is our duty to investigate how such things could happen."
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Tereza Brdečková on the old fear of the barbarians
Czech writer Tereza Brdečková responds to those in Germany and Austria who warn that the expansion of the Schengen area in three weeks' time comes too soon. "Today's Europe is not the Western Roman Empire, but the attitude is the same: 'We must be on guard against the barbarians who don't share our values'. We, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the Poles and the Hungarians, also think this way. We are more xenophobic than all Western Europeans put together and are fearful that the 'barbarians' will invade our countries. ... The Iron Curtain used to preserve a certain balance: the stability of the dictatorship of terror here; the stability of the boom in the West. But the stereotype of the 'musty East' is now outdated. ... The expansion of the Schengen area is the best thing that could happen to the West."
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