Eternal dissident Ján Čarnogurský
He was a dissident and remained a dissident. In his views, which stand outside the mainstream. Ján Čarnogurský sits in his small law office and looks out the window at the Artists’ Club building. A framed photograph from 1968 hangs above his head, showing the barrel of a Red Army invasion tank pointing at the Artists’ Club. But Ján Čarnogurský feels affection and admiration for Russia. I never fought against Russia, but against communism, says the former leader of Slovak dissent, prisoner of the communist regime, later deputy prime minister of the federal government and founder of the Christian Democratic Movement. Dissent in Slovakia was based on Christianity, unlike in the Czechia, where the driving force was civil liberal circles. The Charter therefore did not appeal to many Slovaks, but don’t say that there were fewer dissidents in Slovakia. If we compare Czech dissent with Polish dissent, even the Czech one sounds almost ridiculous. Čarnogurský reminds us that the first mass resistance against communism in Czechoslovakia was the Candlemas demonstration in Bratislava on 25 March 1988, organised by Catholic circles. Thousands of people took part and were severely dispersed by the police.
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