Word: mejstrik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mejstrik said he took issue with the nonsensical ideas of Western students. He said liberal Western students favor many of the socialistic ideas that Czechs dislike...
...Socialism and Marxism is not a human way to live. If you say to me that you are a socialist or a Marxist, you cannot say to me you are for humans," said Mejstrik...
...Mejstrik, who has toured several campus printing presses in the U.S., said he believes that student newspapers are important places to discuss political ideas...
...Mejstrik's strong belief in the power of the student press stems from his own experiences: his paper helped his university become the center of student protest in Czechoslovakia, he said...
Still, not everyone believed that the revolution would succeed, said Mejstrik. Many remembered 1968, when the Soviet Union, frightened by the Prague Spring movement, sent Warswaw Pact tanks rolling across the border in August, he said...