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Date:         Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:20:22 DST
From:         Jan Szelepcsenyi <janszel@POSEN.MFF.UNIBA.CS>
Subject:      Re: Dusan Slobodnik
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Loise,

thanks for the last posting about the appearance of the letter
from D. Slobodnik in The New York Times. It would be grate, if
you manage to post the anti-Meciar article in The Times.

Here are some news concerning the matter "Slobodnik".

At August 11th, 1992 20 Slovak journalists and writers published
a statement, in which they accord with the accusations expressed
by Mr Feldek, the Slovak writer, against Mr Slobodnik. Mr Feldek
accused repeatedly Mr Slobodnik to be a fascist taking part in
SS-camps.  The group signed a proclamation, asking Mr Slobodnik
to open a trial against them, too. Mr Slobodnik "agried" with an
accuse against Mr Martin Simecka, the son of Mr Milan Simecka, a
signer of Charta '77. The reason are 2,5 mil. Kcs, which Mr
Martin Simecka received as a loan for his Private Publishing
House Archa granted by the Slovak Ministry of Culture. In
accordance with the contract and the statute Mr Martin Simecka
was obliged to pay this debt back to the Ministry of Culture a
long time before.

The Slovak daily "Koridor" on August 17, 1992 emphasized, that
the whole campaign against D. Slobodnik, the minister of cultur
in Meciars government, was launched by Mr Stefan Pazdera (1924)
Presov (Eastern Slovakia). The reason was very simple -
jealousy.  Mr Slobodnik is the president of SANO (Slovenska
asociacia nasilne odvlecenych) - The Slovak Association of
Deported by Force, too and Mr Pazdera tried to get a speaker of
the deported people.

It was collected evidence about the criminal past of Mr Pazdera.
A suit against him will be prepared soon.

In the same issue Koridor published a column with statements of
Mr Simon Wiesenthal, the famous director of the Vienna
Documentation Centre of the Nazis' Crime, concerning the past of
Mr Slobodnik. According to Mr Wiesenthal's mind Mr Slobodnik was
at the end of the WW2 too young (18) for being of any
importance. Comparing Mr Slobodnik to Mr Waldheim, the former
president of Austria accused for having a Nazi past, Mr
Wiesenthal stressed: "At the end of the war Mr Waldheim was 24.
He was an information officer at the military headquarters. Who
was Mr Slobodnik? Mister Nobody!"

About the "new democrats" Mr Wiesenthal said: "I don't believe
the claims of former communists, who changed their mind during a
night to a democratic one."

In an official statement Mr Slobodnik claimed the campaign
launched against him have had as a goal to force him not to pay
any attention to the decisions of the former minister of
culture, who priviledged in his policy the disidents and
chartists in a way which was out of law.

The revolution (or the normal life?) continues...

Hi,

Jan
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