How did the wives, parents or children of political prisoners live? Lubomír Vejražka presents the testimonies of many Muklovian families, which as a whole, among other things, refute and completely contradict the current revisionist theories that most people were actually well off under socialism. He uses the character of the "Mlžžilka" for his polemic, whose real identity is easily guessed by the enlightened reader. We invite you to a reading and discussion with the author in the beautiful surroundings of the Libri prohibiti library on Easter Tuesday, April 19, at 6 pm.
"The wife of a con man was thrown out of the accounting office, she had to load boxes onto wagons. They didn't take into account her weakness, her small stature, or her asthma. She had to work even in bitter cold. She became seriously ill with pneumonia and had a mental breakdown. The cadre declared her a simulacrum and accused her of sabotaging socialism. He even went to the attending physician and demanded written confirmation that she was healthy. The doctor refused and growled that they should leave the gravely ill woman alone. Liar, if today's times had shut your husband up and done to you, what would you characterize the woman today?"
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"Capitalism and socialism - supposedly two alternative expressions... if I am given the choice of choosing for myself the misery of the Great Depression of the 1930s in Western Europe or starving to death in Ukraine, being killed in Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, dying in slave labour in the freezing tundra beyond the Arctic Circle, I choose the crisis. To choose life or death - such an offer cannot normally be said to be a choice between two alternatives. I wonder what a prisoner returning from the Gulag would say to the Misty if she told him that Soviet-style socialism was part of the development of Western modernity."