Petr Uhl on the Czechs' lack of interest in Prague Spring

In France, Germany and Poland, the year 1968 is commemorated in many ways, Petr Uhl writes, but it is met with a lack of interest in the Czech Republic: "And who commemorates the commitment of both members and non-members of the communist party to a different type of socialism? Where are the debates in schools, the media and assemblies? Or were we really all mistaken back then, as the 'normalisers' [the orthodox communists after 1968] claimed? There seems to be no desire for discussion. This means the triumph of the absurd claim that what happened back then was nothing more than an inner-party power struggle, and that Soviet intervention convinced people once and for all that socialism was simply a dead end."

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