The great Czech writer, the former “anti-Soviet and dissident” Milan Kundera, was disliked by the modern Westernized Czech media at one time by no means accident. If you look, let's say, the "socio-political aspect" of his latest novels, especially the latest, charming and hopeless "Ignorance", then it is extremely simple: this is a text about how, having wrested their homeland "from under communist oppression," Czech intellectuals with their own hands somewhere for thirty pieces of silver, and somewhere for "just like that" gave its original independence to the no less alien and faceless "West".
And this was the payment for entering the world that deprived Kundera of the main thing for him - his homeland - finally: the point, of course, is not that he stopped loving her.
The fact is that any national society, deprived of state sovereignty, sooner or later decays and dies.
And the great Czech writer, who became a citizen of France, simply did not want to be involved in this.
And how can the pro-Western Czech liberals and democrats "love" such a thing, to whom he simply casually pointed out their true place in the servants' room.
This is what we are, in fact, that's what.
Absolute, distilled nonsense "with agents Boshirov and Petrov", who have blown up an ammunition depot in the Czech Republic, we do not even intend to discuss here: it was ridiculous even at the level of Salisbury and its "spiers". At the level of the Czech warehouse six years ago, this is not even funny, but elementary, and there is even nothing to say about it. If only in the aspect of the solution by different parties in the Czech leadership of their purely small-town tasks: the split both in Czech society and in the Czech elites is a well-known thing. But even this is not the main thing, even this, so to speak, can only be, as they say, "along the way": to put the same relationship with one of the most important, including economic, partners under attack because of this, sorry, nonsense ,as an inter-communal quarrel between small-town "Atlantists" and native "pragmatists"? Having lost the sovereignty of the Czech Republic, no one would have given it for such a small reason, and this should not be attributed to local realities.
Useless.
The task was clearly set “not from here”, and obviously people who are not very well versed in the actual European realities: more precisely, people who decisively do not care about European realities in general (and the dying Czech sovereignty in particular).
And they, in the end, do not care that the Czechs in this story will look like absolute clowns: once upon a time there was a girl - herself, a fool, and guilty.
Actually, this is exactly what the great Czech writer, mentioned above, was talking about with his sad smile: he understood too well what such tasteless political clowning could lead to.
And it is not so important here that it was decisive at the stage of making a decision about what in America itself is called “pushing the Czech elites under the bus”: believe me here, the issue is far from only at the Dukovany NPP.
The American Westinghouse, in whose interests the Czech politicians of the “Atlanticist”, who do not hide their connections either with the American Democratic Party or even with the American special services, are now actively "drowning" the Czech politicians, in general, well, it is not altogether.
And at least they are definitely not good enough to arrange this hellish boil with the expulsion of 18 Russian diplomats.
In such conditions, it makes sense to close the huge Czech embassy in Moscow.
And the building they have not far from Tverskaya seems to be undeservedly good - but this is a side issue.
It seems to me that this is rather a desire to divert attention from the attempted terrorist attack and coup d'etat in our allied Belarus. Because if this fails, then the United States, and first of all its "services" based in Eastern Europe (it is they who are responsible for such operations, purely by subordination), will also have to answer these very unpleasant questions. So it's better to talk about anecdotal stories about Petrov and Boshirov within the framework of the general world hype.
Therefore, the questions here, by and large, are precisely in this: how independently the Eastern European branches played and how simple it really is to cover up an obvious failure for the whole world.
Much really depends on this, and many experts no longer have confidence that the somewhat degrading American political machine is capable of tightly controlling its performers on the ground.
Under Trump, these guys obviously played their own games and flirted no less obviously: just remember the “Belarusian riot” a couple of weeks after Lukashenko's meeting with Pompeo, when Alexander Grigorievich and his counterpart agreed on everything essential.
And here on you - hello, at the same time paint the fence.
This is really a question.
There are probably no questions to the Czech Republic, especially to its elites: talking to a dog barking at you from behind a fence is pointless.
Rather, it makes sense to talk to its owners somehow, probably more thoughtfully.
It is about this - about the loss of his people, and therefore about the loss of himself - that the intolerable Milan Kundera wrote in his last novels.
And that is precisely why, we repeat, the great Czech writer is so disliked by democratic media and politicians in this beautiful country.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.