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communism
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The Communist countries are awfully puritanical.†
Chpt 2

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
It was the period when so-called socialist realism was prescribed and the school manufactured Portraits of Communist statesmen.†
Chpt 3
Her longing to betray her rather remained unsatisfied: Communism was merely another rather, a father equally strict and limited, a father who forbade her love (the times were puritanical) and Picasso, too.†
Chpt 3

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
At the time, she had thought that only in the Communist world could such musical barbarism reign supreme.†
Chpt 3

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
How did you oppose the Communist regime?†
Chpt 3
...Assessing the populace, checking up on it, is a principal and never-ending social activity in Communist countries.†
Chpt 3
He didn't care whether his fellow-countrymen were good kickers or painters (none of the Czechs at the emigre gathering ever showed any interest in what Sabina painted); he cared whether they had opposed Communism actively or just passively, really and truly or just for appearances' sake, from the very beginning or just since emigration.†
Chpt 3

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
When the distinguished emigre heard from the lips of a painter whose pictures he had never seen that he resembled Communist President Novotny, he turned scarlet, then white, then scarlet again, then white once more; he tried to say something, did not succeed, and fell silent.†
Chpt 3

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
When their parents force them to go to church, they get back at them by joining the Party (Communist, Maoist, Trotskyist, etc.).†
Chpt 3
Sabina, however, was first sent to church by her father, then forced by him to attend meetings of the Communist Youth League.†
Chpt 3
She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.†
Chpt 3

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Sabina recalled how after the Communist coup all the castles in Bohemia were nationalized and turned into manual training centers, retirement homes, and also cow sheds.†
Chpt 3

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
He then became one of the best-loved figures of the Prague Spring, that dizzying liberalization of Communism which ended with the Russian invasion.†
Chpt 4

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
In front of the glorious ruins, a reminder for now and eternity of the evils perpetrated by war, stood a steel-bar reviewing stand for some demonstration or other that the Communist Party had herded the people of Prague to the day before or would be herding them to the day after.†
Chpt 4

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise.†
Chpt 5
Then everyone took to shouting at the Communists: You're the ones responsible for our country's misfortunes (it had grown poor and desolate), for its loss of independence (it had fallen into the hands of the Russians), for its judicial murders!†
Chpt 5

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Tomas followed the dispute closely (as did his ten million fellow Czechs) and was of the opinion that while there had definitely been Communists who were not completely unaware of the atrocities (they could not have been ignorant of the horrors that had been perpetrated and were still being perpetrated in postrevolutionary Russia), it was probable that the majority of the Communists had not in fact known of them.†
Chpt 5
Tomas followed the dispute closely (as did his ten million fellow Czechs) and was of the opinion that while there had definitely been Communists who were not completely unaware of the atrocities (they could not have been ignorant of the horrors that had been perpetrated and were still being perpetrated in postrevolutionary Russia), it was probable that the majority of the Communists had not in fact known of them.†
Chpt 5
When Tomas heard Communists shouting in defense of their inner purity, he said to himself, As a result of your not knowing, this country has lost its freedom, lost it for centuries, perhaps, and you shout that you feel no guilt?†
Chpt 5
Consequently, it was the writers' paper that raised the issue of who bore the burden of guilt for the judicial murders resulting from the political trials that marked the early years of Communist power.†
Chpt 5

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Alexander Dubcek was in power, along with those Communists who felt guilty and were willing to do something about their guilt.†
Chpt 5

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
But the other Communists, the ones who kept shouting how innocent they were, were afraid that the enraged nation would bring them to justice.†
Chpt 5
There was a short pause, after which the man from the Ministry said in mournful tones, Then tell me, Doctor, do you really think that Communists should put out their eyes?†
Chpt 5
Well, did I write that Communists ought to put out their eyes?†
Chpt 5
Whether you meant to or not, you fanned the flames of anti-Communist hysteria with your article.†
Chpt 5

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
It contained words of love for the Soviet Union, vows of fidelity to the Communist Party; it condemned the intelligentsia, which wanted to push the country into civil war; and, above all, it denounced the editors of the writers' weekly (with special emphasis on the tall, stooped editor; Tomas had never met him, though he knew his name and had seen pictures of him), who had consciously distorted his article and used it for their own devices, turning it into a call for counterrevolution: too cowardly to write such an article themselves, they had hid behind a naive doctor.†
Chpt 5
It called for the radical democratization of the Communist regime.†
Chpt 5
Tomas's first wife was an orthodox Communist, and Tomas automatically assumed that his son was under her influence.†
Chpt 5
The Communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them.†
Chpt 5

communists = people who support an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
The fact that any public undertaking (meeting, petition, street gathering) not organized by the Communist Party was automatically considered illegal and endangered all the participants was common knowledge.†
Chpt 5

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Sabina's initial inner revolt against Communism was aesthetic rather than ethical in character.†
Chpt 6

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
What repelled her was not nearly so much the ugliness of the Communist world (ruined castles transformed into cow sheds) as the mask of beauty it tried to wearin other words, Communist kitsch.†
Chpt 6

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
What repelled her was not nearly so much the ugliness of the Communist world (ruined castles transformed into cow sheds) as the mask of beauty it tried to wearin other words, Communist kitsch.†
Chpt 6
The model of Communist kitsch is the ceremony called May Day.†
Chpt 6
Nor were they merely expressing political agreement with Communism; no, theirs was an agreement with being as such.†
Chpt 6

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
The unwritten, unsung motto of the parade was not Long live Communism!†
Chpt 6
The power and cunning of Communist politics lay in the fact that it appropriated this slogan.†
Chpt 6

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
which attracted people indifferent to the theses of Communism to the Communist parade.†
Chpt 6

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
which attracted people indifferent to the theses of Communism to the Communist parade.†
Chpt 6

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
Behind his words there was more than joy at seeing children run and grass grow; there was a deep understanding of the plight of a refugee from a Communist country where, the senator was convinced, no grass grew or children ran.†
Chpt 6
The smile on his face was the smile Communist statesmen beamed from the height of their reviewing stand to the identically smiling citizens in the parade below.†
Chpt 6
And in fact, Soviet films, which flooded the cinemas of all Communist countries in that crudest of times, were saturated with incredible innocence and chastity.†
Chpt 6
The current conventional interpretation of these films is this: that they showed the Communist ideal, whereas Communist reality was worse.†
Chpt 6
The current conventional interpretation of these films is this: that they showed the Communist ideal, whereas Communist reality was worse.†
Chpt 6
She would unhesitatingly prefer life in a real Communist regime with all its persecution and meat queues.†
Chpt 6
Life in the real Communist world was still livable.†
Chpt 6
In the world of the Communist ideal made real, in that world of grinning idiots, she would have nothing to say, she would die of horror within a week.†
Chpt 6
Do you mean that modern art isn't persecuted under Communism?†
Chpt 6

communism = an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society
My enemy is kitsch, not Communism!†
Chpt 6
Since opinions vary, there are various kitsches: Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Communist, Fascist, democratic, feminist, European, American, national, international.†
Chpt 6

communist = someone who supports an economic system that abolishes private ownership of property with the goal of a classless society

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