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STUDENT'S E-MAIL NEWS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Faculty of Social Science of Charles University
Smetanovo nabr. 6
110 01 Prague 1
C.S.F.R.
e-mail: FSVUKA@CSEARN.BITNET
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C A R O L I N A No 3, Friday, November 15, 1991.
The E-mail News from Czechoslovakia
This news may be published only with the "CAROLINA" designation.
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LAST WEEK's EVENTS
There will be no referendum! This is the result of the Wednesday debate
in the Czechoslovakian Parliament. The joint meeting of both houses of
the Federal Assembly debated on the 13th of November 6 variously phrazed
proposals of the question that would be put to the population of the
Czech and Slovak Federal Republic if referendum passed. The question was
meant to determine the public will concerning their will to remain in
one state or split. The law concerning referendum was passed in the
Parliament last summer and the law concerning its form last week.In the
floor debate broadcast live on TV the representatives of the majority of
Slovak parties opposed the referendum. Among them were the following
parties : The Movement for Democratic Slovakia, tje Party of the
Democratic Left, the Christian Democratic Movement and the Slovak
National Party. On the Czech side it was the representantives of the
Czechoslovak Peoples 's Party and the communist Party of Bohemia and
Moravia. Not one of the six proposals received the necessary 3/5
majority of votes.
COURSE FOR FOREIGN STUDENTS
A course for fifty foreign students, organised by the american
non-governmental organization council on international educational
exchange, founded in 1947 in new york, is being held until the end of
december at the philosophy faculty of Charles University in Prague. The
course is being held within the framework of the east and central
european studies programme.
Over the course of the semester the students, who are mostly from
the United States, and some of them of Czech origin, will complete an
intensive course in Czech language and will become familiar with czech
literature, art and history in the context of central Europe. They are
also learning about the condition of the czechoslovak economy, the
country s ecological situation, as well as religion in the country. They
are receiving information that is difficult to get when one is far from
our republic.
The section leader from ciee in Czechoslovakia, professor R.
Kneeley, told us that the programme, which is similar to programmes in
other countries such as Poland, Hungary, The Soviet Union, and Great
Britain, will be continued in following years. The programme is
sponsored by universitites in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Washington d. c.,
and other states.
CENTRAL EUROPE TODAY
The well-known Czech-French political scientist Jacques Rupnik, who
lectures on the problems of central and east Europe at many of Europe
s universities, presented to our faculty a lecture entitled Central
Europe Today.
(More information on our faculty can be found under number two.)
He explained that a common feature of all post-communist countries
is that their societies persistently are trying to come to terms with
their recent past. Everything that in any way is connected with the old
regime is to be erased from memory or renamed. People yearn to put
communism in mental brackets, as if to put in behind them, he said.
At the same time, the revolution is an attempt to restore as much
as possible from what preceeded communism - both the negative and the
positive In Czechoslovakia the traditions of the pre-war republic are
returning, while in the Balkans and in Soviet Russia, where communism
directly replaced monarchies, monarchism is on the rise.
"Historians are today the psychoanalysts of their people," Rupnik
said. People want to know who is guilty for the current state of affairs
and who is responsible for the tragedy of Central Europe. The discussion
will still be long and painful and will be accompanied by a number of
injustices.
Jacques Rupnik also analysed the results of Poland s recent
parliamentary elections. He calles them "catastrophic", as deputies from
20 different political parties were elected, while no single party
received more than 12 percent of the vote.
The elections, he said, were the result of political developments
after the overthrow of the communist regime. The same tendency can be
observed in the other post-communist countries. The broad-based
movements of all the opponents of the old regimes, who formerly
consolidated their forces, (i.e. Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia,
Solidarity in Poland) have now fragmented into groups apread across the
political spectrum.
Czechoslovakia, he said, is threatened with the same sort of
results in its June parliamentary elections as those in the Polish
elections. Answering questions, Rupnik said one of the main ways in
which this could be avoided is by implementing a better election system.
PANTOMIME IN OUR THEATRE
The Branick Pantomime Theatre Mimos from November 9 to 25. The gala
opening was held in the Vinohrad Theatre, led by a presentation by the
French artistic group "Roc In Lichen" another group of French
performers, Theatre du Mouvement, will conclude the festival.
Poland is represented at the festival by the ensembles "Iota" and
"Akademia Ruchu", and Russia by the group "Human Material".
Czechoslovak pantomime is represented by the artistic group " 2 +
2 " with their presentation, "Male Modre Nic" /Little Blue Nothing/.
A very interesting addition to the festival will be a theatre
groupe Derevo /Leningrad/, which will be conducted by the groupe
s artistic director, Anton Adasinsky.
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