The Czech Dead Student

[Peter Lemkin]

There were riots there the other day. Do you know what all that was about Peter?

Monday was the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution [so-called]...25 years from the demonstration the fake 'dead student/StB Agent]' was in the front lines of - and is credited with the beginning of the end of Communism in Czechoslovakia. There were many different gatherings - some in memorial; some in protest. President Zeman [an idiot, at best, IMHO] was pelted with eggs and tomatoes and booed when speaking at the main Science Campus of the University - where the student march 25 years ago began. Other than egg on his face, nothing much happened to him. A peaceful concert and speeches in memorial and reflection was held in the biggest square. I live near the Castle and about 2000 people came at the end of the day protesting against Zeman at his office in the Castle. They all held up red cards, as in a football game, and signs against Zeman and for Havel [now dead]. They mostly just want some moral basis to the political system here. CZE is still considered one of the most corrupt European countries, and with good reason. One regularly reads about corruption and bribes among the political and business classes. I see the corruption all around. There weren't any 'riots'....just mostly peaceful demonstrations and one incident of egg and tomato throwing at the President. One artist a few months ago built a giant hand giving the middle finger to the Castle and Zeman and put it on a barge in the river. Politics here is a joke - a very bad joke, IMO. The country besides being corrupt is a lost puppy now following NATO and the USA, as it once did the Soviet Union. Most people are disillusioned at the political system, and not as happy as they thought they'd be under Capitalism.

Peter, a request. Keep an eye out for the turn of this disillusionment into another Maidan movement (NED). For example, I read somewhere that passing out red cards was the beginning of the engineering of regime change ending in a more "cooperative" government from a US/NATO pov.

Here is a quote from Vladimer Suchan on Facebook:

Prague Maidan is a "celebration" of Russophobia and hatred for Russia. That's what the existing power is selling now. Yet hardly anyone of the zombies now that they are buying into a possible NATO war with Russia, in which the Czechs would be commanded to die for a completely wrong cause--just like the many Ukrainians who are thus betraying the legacy of their grandfathers.
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A Prague Maidanist is displaying a happy and friendly strangling of a "Colorado Beetle" standing here for a blond "Russian woman." "Fascism is fun." And many of the Czechs are clearly nuts. Nazi nuts in the making.

Does Suchan's commentary ring true with what you are seeing?

His commentary doesn't say much nor ring at all to me. This photo was taken recently in the Old Town Square - I've not been there in over a week and haven't seen the group. Maybe tomorrow, if they are still there. That said, some here hate Russia because the nation was occupied and repressed by the Soviet Union for a long time with some fairly unpleasant experiences. Others are either still fond of a socialist or communist system and/or don't see the current Russia as anything like the former Soviet Union - and do see it as a fellow Slavic nation - with similarities in language and some aspects of culture. I haven't seen anything one could label as Prague or CZE 'maidan' - no one is fomenting any movements of the people here. Most Czechs are fairly apathetic politically. The current and all post-Communist governments have been very close to the US line and NATO - they only vary in degree. I strongly doubt you'll see any new revolutions or political movements here anytime soon.