So here we have a new “narrative” that may not yet be on the government’s list of what you must think (yes, the new Czech Euro-optimist government has indeed issued a list of correct views), but it is enough to make some zealous activist need to show action. So let’s reckon that in two or three years time this “narrative” will also be mandatory.
It says that during the German occupation of the Czech lands, life was actually quite decent, and that the German “protectors” were cultured and generally classy. It doesn’t completely deny that there were mass murders and death camps, but the Czechs were to blame anyway. That was supposed to have changed in 1945, according to the new narrative, when those decent Germans were driven out by the primitive Russians, and when those Russians started looting, pillaging, raping, burning houses until they destroyed the country. During the Protectorate, the narrative says, life was good and safe, then came the horror.
The new narrative does not explain why the Red Army was so enthusiastically welcomed. The old photos are simply erased.
The new narrative does not explain why the Red Army was so enthusiastically welcomed. The old photos are simply erased.
What I am describing is not an exaggeration. Check the twitter accounts of active supporters of the current government. They see it exactly like this. And they’re supported by journalists from the public media.
I remind you that this is not an original view. Emanuel Moravec, the most famous Czech collaborator with Nazism, has written about the “hordes from the East” and all that. The one who was saved from the gallows only by his suicide in May 1945.
