| Abstrakt: |
Abstract: This document, introduced here by Vilém Prečan and commented on in retrospect by its author, Bedřich Loewenstein, is an essay, written in the summer of 1948, while Loewenstein was still a student. It sought to penetrate the veils of Communist propaganda and understand what had just happened in Czechoslovakia in February of that fateful year. The essay circulated among students of secondary schools in the autumn of 1948, particularly the one in Prague 7 from which the author was to graduate in 1949. The essay is divided into three chapters. The first demonstrates the illegality of the totalitarian take-over by the Communists. The second ponders what was at the time reasonable to expect from a Communist dictatorship. The third reflects on the spiritual and moral situation of the Czech nation after the takeover. |
