He writes these were great days of civic society. The state leadership signed in Moscow a protocol that was more shameful than that president Emil Hacha signed in Berlin, Hanak writes. He adds the Berlin protocol unlike the Moscow one did not at least contain a passage binding Czechs to love the occupants. Prague Spring protagonist Alexander Dubcek rewarded loyal citizens with the signature in August 1969 of a Slovak rescuers find dead Polish tourist in High Tatras ...
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Czech president undergoes successful hip joint operation ... document under which everyone who would shout "Long Live Dubcek!" would be punished, Hanak writes. "The dream of the possibility of reforming the communist form of socialism could not have a more bizarre end," Hanak writes in conclusion. Unless Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin finds other influential preachers after Czech President Vaclav Klaus, Russia will pay for its attack on Georgia a prize in the form of a definitive end to its influence on the post-communist world, Lubon Palata writes in Lidove noviny. Moscow should comprehend that if Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev continue to behave as they behave in Georgia, the U.S.
anti-missile base in Poland and the radar base on Czech soil will also naturally be used as protection against Russia, Palata writes. "Indeed, they are to protect the civilised world against 'rogue states,'" Palata writes. The stand of the Polish government is reasonable, Martin Komarek writes in Mlada fronta Dnes about the signature of a Polish-U.S. agreement on stationing a base for ten interceptor missiles in Poland. In the brutal world of mad mujahedins, cold-blooded agents at the head of nuclear great powers and mad pacifists, the security of central Europe is unstable. Close connection with the U.S. defence system makes it much firmer, Komarek writes.
(Ceske Noviny)
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