President Klaus speaks on the birth of communism / President Klaus si pripomina pocatky komunismu

During one of the celebrations of the 18. anniversary of the Velvet Revolution the president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, had a speech on what circumstances have played a great role in the birth of communism in the former Czechoslovakia:

1. The first breaking point became the anti-Nazi demonstration on November 17th 1939, when one of the participating students, Jan Opletal, was deadly wounded. His funeral became an excuse for the Nazis to begin with a massacre of Czech intellectuals. All of the Universities were closed, 9 student leaders were executed without any kind of a trial, and 1,200 students were taken to the concentration camp in Sachsenhouser. This date, according to Klaus, was the beginning of German attempt to erase the Czechoslovakia off of the map of Europe.
2. Famous Czech thinkers of that time let themselves to be led astray by the leftist,utopia-like visions.
3. After the West turn its back on the Czechs, they started to search for security in the Eastern block.

K 18. vyroci Sametove revoluce Vaclav Klauz polemizuje nad tim, co podle nej prispelo ke vzniku komunisticke totality v byvalem Ceskoslovensku:

1. Prvni zlomove datum byl 17. listopad roku 1939, kdy nemecti naciste zahajili utlak s cilem vymazat cesky narod z mapy Evropy. Behem proti-nacisticke demonstrace, ktera se toho dne konala byl usmrcen student Jan Opletal, jehoz pohreb byl zaminkou tvrdeho zasahu proti ceske inteligenci: vsechny vysoke skoly byly zavreny, 9 studentskych vudcu bylo bez soudu popraveno a 1200 studentu bylo odvleceno do koncentracniho tabora v Sachsenhauseru.
2. Vyznamni myslitele tehdejsi mezivalecne doby se nechali omamit levicovymi utopistickymi vizemi
3. Lide zacali hledat bezpecnostni zaruky na vychode po te, co je zapadni velmoce opustily

Source: http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/domov/index_view.php?id=282333