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...reformist streams of the initially Party-controlled Prague Spring of 1968 overflowed into a nationwide tide of unrest, the intellectuals, and writers in particular, were, by their past experience, often best equipped to help wipe out the Stalinist garbage accumulated over 20 years. Overnight the Prague literary journal Literarni Listy became the most avidly read paper in the country and its contributors, the spokesmen for popular aspirations (an understandable situation in a country where no legal means of opposition were available, writers and journalists had access to the media recently freed from censorship). The philosopher Ivan Svitak was calling...
...Czechoslovakia, the literary journal Literarni Noviny published an interview with venerable Hungarian Philosopher Gyorgy Lukacs, 78, who complained that "as a result of the Stalinist era, we have missed 50 years of the development of capitalism," called for the adoption of "everything new and everything scientifically progressive that's originated in the West since Lenin's death." The Czech party organ immediately criticized all the major literary magazines for "serious gaps, political errors, and ideological confusion," scored them for "propagating revisionist tendencies...
Even the weekly Literarni Noviny, published by the Union of Czechoslovak Writers, was moved to mix praise of the TIME volume with big-brotherly caution. It ran a reproduction of Richard Florsheim's Night City from the book and commented...
...Communist countries, home truths are best disguised as fiction. The following remarkable fable, written by Czech Author Jiri Marek, appeared recently in the Prague Communist weekly Literarni Noviny...
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