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...people are solving their own problems and are only dressing them up as something more," he says. "Were it not for Palach, many of them would have probably tried to commit suicide by other methods." But the acts of Adamec and his followers may also have been a curiously Czech response to troubled times. "People don't take to the streets to fight," says Josef Nesvadba, a prominent Czech author and retired psychoanalyst. "They go home and turn...
...money and power rule." He warned that "unless humankind radically changes its ways within the next several decades, civilization will perish in filth or wars." Adamec's grievances were many: violence in movies and on TV, environmental pollution, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, bullying and drug use in Czech schools. But the effect of his actions has been unmistakable. In the past seven weeks, five more people in the Czech Republic have set themselves ablaze, and three have died: Vera Jedlicková, 50, burned herself near her family plot at Brno's central cemetery on March...
...grim knock-on effect came as little surprise to those familiar with Czech history. In 1969, 28 Czech residents set fire to themselves in the 31?2 months after Palach's death, which brought some 200,000 people into Wenceslas Square to light candles and lay flowers. Thirty-four years later, relatively few came to mourn Adamec. But his death and the copycat immolations that followed have become a kind of Czech Rorschach test, as people seek and find explanations that may have more to do with themselves than with the suicides...
Currently reading: “Beowulf” (in Czech translation...
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