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Fifty years after the Prague Spring!

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September 17, 2018
Fifty years after the Prague Spring!

Hussein Shobokshi



A few weeks ago, was the 50th anniversary of the Prague Spring, the phase that marked the violent attack of Soviet military forces to suppress all the manifestations of freedom demanded by Czechoslovakia. This incident was considered the most important gap that led to the fall of the entire Soviet Union later because it showed the world that the ideal situation offered by the Soviet Union and its satellites was just the opposite. All this was confirmed by the thunderous fall of the Soviet Union itself in a blink of an eye, like scattering papers in the air.

Czechoslovakia enjoyed its freedom in a smooth and civilized manner; whereas the name of "Velvet Revolution" was given to the movement at the time, because of the great peaceful movement of the people at the time, in which not a single drop of blood was shed. The quiet and upscale playwright Vaclav Havel was elected as the President of the Republic. He was named “Mandela of Europe” because of his deep belief of peaceful objection and arguing against the argument as the only way for opposition. After that, a very high-class detachment and a civilized divorce occurred between the Czechs and the Slovaks to become two independent friendly republics — The Czech Republic and The Slovak Republic.

In fact, the Czech Republic was badly wronged in the era of the six decades of coercion as part of the Soviet Union because it was a free and capitalist country of origin and by nature. There are a great number of brands founded by the Czechs, including Skoda cars, Bata shoes, the most important crystal industries, therapeutic sanatoriums, and sugar cubes, famous restaurants of McDonald's, and others, as well as the most important universities in Europe such as Charles University, which has the oldest medical school in the continent of Europe.

The Czechs have excelled in various fields and formed an integrated system of self-sufficiency in food, industries and services; though it is a small country and has a small population, it has a philosophy of self-reliance. The Czech Republic has entered the European market but did not adopt the Euro currency and retained its Czech koruna, and has a very conservative banking system and a rational lending "policy" that has maintained the safety of banks and did not drift like others to tense lending and to fall in the throes of the huge Greek crisis.

It also has a wonderful system of arts and culture, as it is the country that has introduced Kafka and Kundera to the world in the field of literature, and Smetana and Dubrek in classical music, and Milos Foreman in cinema, and dozens of heroes in all kinds of sports.

The Czech Republic was able to get on its feet quickly after its salvation from the Soviet Union. Its budget is positive, its currency is strong, and its security is very stable. Today, the Czechs are breathing the breeze of freedom after they have emerged from the cloak of injustice and tyranny. The world has every right to celebrate this wonderful civilizational and human achievement.


September 17, 2018
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