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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:39:49 DST
From:         Jan Szelepcsenyi <janszel@POSEN.MFF.UNIBA.CS>
Subject:      Re: Skvorecky's article
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X-cc:         Robert Szelepcsenyi <robert@posen.mff.uniba.cs>

Mr Marcinka in his article on 24 Jul 1992 wrote:

>   Slovakia became a burden when it started moving in
>   a direction which is opposite to where the Czech
>   lands want to go.

I'm affraid you are fighting against shadows. I'm living in
Czechoslovakia and I'm not able to realize what the differences
in the movements of the Czechs and Slovaks are.

The Czechs have a parliament overloaded by communists, the
Slovaks too.

The Czechs are privatizing their industry allowing dirty monies
to move throughout their economy, the Slovaks are selling their
plants to international mafias, too. (By the way, it was Mr
Klaus, who didn't allowe to pass a low enabling the banks to
control the origin of moneys used in privatization...)

Mr Klaus is playing tennis, Mr Meciar is a forme boxer (both
sports are olympic disciplines).

The contacts of Mr Meciar with the State Secret Police (so
called StB) was an object of concentrated attention of the press
till Mr Havel didn't admit that he was a "candidate for secret
collaboration" wit the StB, too. Mr Havel avowed it trying to
help Mr Kocab, the senator, which was so busy with speeding up
the transportation of Soviet Army away from CSFR. His
collaboration with the StB was an actually unpleasant spot on
his revolutionary costume...

The Slovak government is created mostly by communists, dismissed
from their party in 1968. Mr Dlouhy, one of the hard-liners in
the Czech economical policy, cancelled his membership in the CP
in November 1989.

etc., etc.

The only clear difference in the movement of both nations is the
rate of unemployment (appr. 3 % in Bohemia, 12 % in Slovakia)
and the chasm of an economical collaps, waiting for the Slovaks.
It's probably a sign of weakness, if the people feel a fear
looking at it's bottom.

If you are walking along with a friend, a really good friend -
who does assess the tempo, the stronger or the weaker one of
you?

The structure of the Slovak economics was determined during the
last decades not only from the Slovak point of view but
concerning the interests of Czech industry, too. The billions of
dollars for armament sold in the world didn't enter only the
Slovak budget, but always the federal budget.  Then, the costs
for conversion have to be payed by both partners.

But, as you can see, the second one is speeding up. He is
heading towards democracy, property, liberalism and how it
calles all this propagandistic rubbish. I'm sure, every of you
knows very detailed what the matter is.

More useful could be playing a game: what would I do being the
prime minister of Bohemia, or Slovakia or of the Federal
government?  How could I save this brave nations for the future,
how could I save the common state not as reliquiae, but as a
synergic phenomenon giving more chance for both partners?  Mr
Havel as well as many Czech politicians stated, that the old
fashioned federation was not an appropriate and democratic model
for the future. But what is the new one? Have you ever seen it,
or read something about its structure? I'm affraid, not. Because
it was never an subject of negotiation.

Let us play this game: what could, would we do being mighty
politicians.  It would be a game for Europe, for coexistence and
cooperation.  It seems the mankind is about to loose the ability
for it - a result of mal-education.

Iy doesn't matter if you refuse my proposal. But, please, don't
refuse my curious question:

		Why became Slovakia a burden for Bohemia?
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Regards

Jan

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