There is group of professional protesters in Prague, actually there are more but they are more or less the same. They go by the names: the Prague Maidan, Kaputin, the Pulse of Europe. The Prague Maidan appeared in the memorable year 2014, and it was actually founded by a Czech, because the Ukrainians (the second largest minority after the Roma) don’t give a hoot. They are a funny lot, and I wanted to share some photos I have collected.
I began calling them “The Exotibetants” because the liberation of Tibet is their cause célèbre.
This is Otakar Van Gemund, a Czech/Dutch exhibicionist. Here he holds a poster in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, who was jailed by Russia. Nadya has since managed to get herself arrested by Ukrainians. I wonder if Van Gemund still supports her.
We will continue fighting for the constitution and human rights, for freedom and democracy! For EU and NATO and for Ukraine.
These people want Maidan in Prague…
This is Marek Hilšer, a former candidate for president… he lost, nobody voted for him.
It was Friday, and pro-Ukrainian stinks have come out to the Wenceslas Square in central Prague to protest Russia…
They are calling for sanctions. The Czech Republic already enacted maximum sanctions that are economically possible. Meanwhile, Russia has been importing everything from China, selling oil to India, and doing development projects in African nations. Much of this is done in currencies other than the dollar. And while Russia might suffer problems in many sectors due to sanctions, sanctions are a temporary measure. They need to be impactful the moment they are enacted. And in most cases they are ineffective. Cuba and North Korea have suffered far worse shit than Russia, and they are still around.
Driving a car fuels Putin’s war machine, don’t drive a car, don’t burn gas in your home, close coal powered power plants, make Greta happy…
UPD: The protest calls itself: minus 3 degrees celsius for Ukraine, organised by the Extinction Rebellion. I am pretty sure that if there are Ukrainians among them, they are a minority. A video of an altercation between the activists and the drivers has appeared. Watch it before YouTube takes it down over violence…
The drivers are very angry, in case this gets taken down I have made an upload to RuTube, where it undergoes moderation.
Contemporary Czech art is a parody and a tragedy in one…
The same people, who removed the statue of the Soviet commander, Ivan Konev built a statue of Marie Therese, an eighteenth century Habsburg empress that is known for abolishing serfdom. The Prague elite always had a strange fondness for monarchy and feudalism. Several political projects that arose from Prague had members of noble families as figureheads. It is, I guess, a romantic escape into simpler times before modernity for them.
However, aesthetically, the Commies that raised the statue of Ivan Konev had more sense for realism, and whatever the contemporary shit is…
THE EMPRESS SWALLOWED MORE THAN $100,000 OF THE MUNICIPAL BUDGET
Somebody is playing a cruel joke on the people of Prague, bombing the city with shitty art. Remember the monument to Vlasovite soldiers in Řeporyje Prague. The bloody fuck?
Figurines pissing on Czechia, another madness in Prague…
A memorable fragment from the current anti-Russian hysteria in the Czech Republic that is worth of a note on this blog…
Ondřej Kolář, the Mayor of Prague 6: “The reality is such that there is a Russian here, who is tasked with liquidation. Not just of me but Mr. Hřib (the Principal Mayor of Prague) and Mr. Novotný (the Mayor of Řeporyje).”
Ondřej Kolář is the mayor of Prague 6, who recently removed the statue to the Soviet liberator of Prague, Ivan Konev. Pavel Novotný is the mayor of Řeporyje, a village that forms the outskirts of Pragua. He brings plenty of traffic to this blog, and recently came up with the initiative to commemorate the soldiers of the Russian Liberation Army. A Nazi collaborator group formed of Russians, who at the very end of the War turned on their Nazi masters and helped the revolt of Czech patriots against the German occupiers...
The Czech Republic is a funny place. Following the removal of Konev’s statue, Russia reacted with enacting a law that would prosecute people, who desecrate the monuments to Red Army in Eastern Europe. But the reaction of the Czechs has been rather hysterical. Not so long ago, a piece of news began circulation that the Czech secret service, the BIS, has information that a man has arrived in Prague, who can be a potential danger to Ondřej Kolář, Pavel Novotný, and the principal mayor of Prague, Zdeněk Hřib. All, as I know, were placed under police protection. Recently, the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs said he knows of Russian actions and that should anything happen to Kolář or Novotný, they will know who did it.
I personally think, the BIS has links to Kolář and this is a conspiracy to create a moral panic with the aim of damaging Czech-Russian relations, and the current government in the Czech Republic as all the mayors represent the opposition. The opposition in the Czech Republic is normally represented in urban areas, whereas the government and the president represent the countryside.
Some people seized on the opportunity to have a bit of laugh at the expense of the eccentric mayors of Prague. Some Zdeněk Pernica from an obscure regional right-wing party asked on Facebook how much is the reward, and added that he lost money due to Corona and needs to cover the losses. He did not mention anyone in text but included a doctored picture with himself holding a rifle and the three mayors seated.
Novotný and representatives of the Czech liberal wing went into hysteria and tried to get the police involved.
Police CZ, thank you, here is a man worthy of investigation from Brno…
The journalists were also active…
This is an explicit threat of death made by Zdeněk Pernica, this should be of interest to the police. The police president was also tagged.
I really hope the police still has some sense of humour left unlike the liberal turds that went ratting on the man. The issue was widely reported in mainstream media, which tried to create a moral panic.
“Do you know the size of the reward in rubles?” -wrote on a social network, the head of the movement, Slušní lidé (polite people) and included a picture of Prague politicians, who are facing threats because of the removal of the Konev statue. All three are under poĺice protection.
The chief of the Prague based think tank, European Values, who did gay porn, expectedly cheered theremoval of the statue of the soviet general, Ivan Konev from the memorial to the liberation of Prague…
This a a happy day, Prague has rid herself of a statute from the 1980s of Marshal Konev, an occupier and murderer of many Hungarians in 1956.
The Czech Russophobes have found a moral argument to remove the statue of Konev. He commanded the Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956. Well, that’s damning but Prague has a statue of Winston Churchill, who starved out the Indians, and kept the Boers in concentration camps. That I would say is a far worse moral credit than Ivan Konev could ever amass in his lifetime. Why no solidarity with the Indians, or the South Africans? The real issue here is that Konev is Russian, and that is his misfortune.
The municipality of Prague 6 used the opportunity provided by the coronavirus quarantine to dismantle the monument to the WWII liberator of Prague, Marshal Ivan Konev…
The municipality of Prague wants to rename the square on which stands the Russian embassy in honour of Boris Nemtsov…
The Russians will laugh at this stupidity, and Prague will spend money on absolute nonsense. That is all that will happen. Ordinary Czechs don’t give a fuck about Boris Nemtsov, and the latter has never done anything for the Czech Republic.
But little did I realize how unoriginal the people in Prague that came up with this cringy initiative are. There already is a Boris Nemtsov Plaza in Washington D.C., named so in 2017. In 2018, Vilnius and Kiev were added to the list of proud cities featuring Russian Embassy addresses on Boris Nemtsov Square.
The Russians will laugh at this stupidity, and Prague will spend money on absolute nonsense. That is all that will happen. Ordinary Czechs don’t give a fuck about Boris Nemtsov, and the latter has never done anything for the Czech Republic.
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