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Rakušanová, Lída
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Václav Klaus simplifies history
Czech President Václav Klaus says he is "frustrated" that there is so much discussion in his country about the Czech post-war crimes against the Sudeten Germans, because the crimes committed by the Nazis were much worse. Publicist Lída Rakušanová laments this undifferentiated view in a letter to German President Christian Wulff published in the liberal daily Pražský deník. Wullf will pay his first visit as president to Prague today, Monday: "Don't cherish any hopes that your words of regret about German crimes perpetrated against the Czechs will find any kind of echo during your talks. Foreign Minister Schwarzenberg is the only one you would encounter with a differentiated view. But you won't be meeting with him in Prague. What a pity! Last week he was the only government representative to attend the commemoration of the exchange of letters of reconciliation between Czech and German bishops twenty years ago. ... People who understand that you can't build a future without coming to terms with the past - you won't currently find people of this kind at Prague Castle, Herr Wullf."
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Theatre of the absurd in Prague
The liberal daily Pražský Deník finds the end of the celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution Kafkaesque: "Exactly at midnight a garbage truck drove up to the commemorative plaque on Narodni street and scooped up hundreds of flowers and burning candles, simply dumping them into a container. Garbage men are only human, and they too wanted to go to bed sooner or later. Their reactions to the onlookers' protests cannot be quoted here. Only a few metres from where one illusion was ending in the container a new one was being born: A line of policemen stood at the National Theatre, while actors bearing banners from November 17, 1989 stood facing them. Three cameras were filming the action, leading one to presume it was a major production, no doubt from Hollywood. ... Václav Havel and Franz Kafka couldn't have thought up something like that together. Only life itself can write such absurd theatre in Prague."
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