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- From: mh@cwi.nl (M. Haindl)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mideur-l
- Subject: Czechoslovakia
- Summary: Arguments needed !!
- Keywords: suffering
- Message-ID: <8703@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 08:45:09 GMT
- Sender: news@cwi.nl
- Lines: 39
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- Reading George Frajkor's mails about Slovak suffering I was expecting to
- see finally some arguments. Suggestions ?
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- 1. Comparison of 1918 and 1992 statistics in:
- education (no. of universities, secondary and basic schools, percentage
- of illiteracy, percentage of people with university education) ,
- culture (no. of theatres, orchestras, museums, exhibition halls, printed books...)
- living standard ( Czech-Slovak difference, life expectancy, health care,
- accommodation, cars, vacation houses ...)
- legislative suppression, science, industrial and agricultural output, export, number
- of inhabitants with Slovak nationality etc.
- If your arithmetic calculus finds any positive changes the natural question
- remains - what were the resources (Saint Claus ? Slovaks? Czechs?).
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- 2. How to explain bad federal Slovak experiences (..."Czechs acting in their own
- interests"...), when the whole Czechoslovak federal era (1968-1989) was
- in the following Slovak hands (not everybody 21 years exactly):
- first secretary of Czechoslovak communist party and president of country Husak
- secretary for ideology of CCP Bilak
- defence minister Dzur, foreign affairs minister Chnoupek, foreign trade
- minister Barcak, vice-premier ... ?
- An example ? Famous problem with Gabcikovo Nagymaros dam, first proposed
- by Slovak politicians in 1964 - rejected by the CCP leader A.Novotny (Czech)
- later in federal era the second proposal approved by G.Husak (Slovak).
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- 3. "looking at those figures posted"
- Why democratic states bother with expensive elections and referendum, when all
- important questions can be solved by random poll of 300-500 people.
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- 4. Second world war suffering of both nations, communist era suffering
- (no of political prisoners, executed, kicked out of employment, forced
- to emigrate ...).
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- Or just anything else but preferably data and facts !
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- M.Haindl - The Netherlands
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