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Western investors, though, have been slow to come forward. "We're sick of people coming here to organize colloquiums on plant conversion as a social phenomenon," says Josef Fucik, a department head in the federal Ministry of Economics in Prague. "We're in severe need of help, not meditations on philosophical problems...
...Josef Skvorecky...
This is one of those big, demanding, convoluted novels that no one is supposed to have the time to read anymore. Furthermore, its author, Josef Skvorecky, who left Czechoslovakia for Canada after Soviet tanks put an end to the Prague Spring of 1968, displays a leisurely, literary sensibility, as if words on a page could still hold their own among sound bites and photo ops. Worst of all, the book's subject -- the lives of ordinary Czechoslovak citizens under the unpredictable pressures of Soviet occupation -- is already, given the torrential crush of current events, an outdated story. The tanks...
Soviet peasants were forced into collective farms and all land became the property of the state during a bloody campaign led by Josef V. Stalin from 1929-1932. Between five million and 10 million people are believed to have died during the collectivization drive...
...table at Josef Niehues' house is elegantly laid -- sparkling glass, glistening silver, fine china, all arrayed around a platter filled with white asparagus and ham, a seasonal delicacy. But the seven men, immersed in conversation, pay scant attention to either setting or food. The discussion, about something that happened four decades ago, still rivets their attention: Was one of their teachers then an apologist for Nazism or merely an outspoken nationalist...