“We can no longer live above the odds,” said the Czech Parliament Speaker, Ms Adamová. What she means is that because of the war funding and sanctions, ordinary citizens are to stop heating their apartments, they are to be denied ordinary pleasures and there may not even be enough food. These are all our sacrifices to defeat Putin.
And on the same day, the editors of a Czech daily dug up that the government had secretly allocated nearly five billion crowns ($200 million) for those items that are usually used when politicians want to send money home. That is, for things like “creating and implementing a communication strategy” or “supporting integration and adaptation”.
…it turns out that the problem is not between the Czechs and the Ukrainians who are queuing at the labour office.
I confess that even I find this cynicism surprising. On the one hand, emotions are being deliberately exacerbated, citizens are being told that everything is about everything, and yet they are transferring money in complete cold blood. Given that this is a secret government decision, it is impossible to console oneself that only officials are stealing. It goes all the way up.
Once again, it turns out that the problem is not between the Czechs and the Ukrainians who are queuing at the labour office. Nor is it between Russians and Ukrainians who are forced to kill each other. It is between normal people who want to work and live in peace and the corporate-political-intellectual class.
