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Was It Worth It?

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: September 25, 2019, 19:00 – 21:00

A tribute to Vladimír Kučera

Was it worth it? Did the breakup of Austria-Hungary and the creation of Czechoslovakia make sense? Was independent Czechoslovakia, as Edvard Beneš claimed, a “lover of the deal”, or, as Adolf Hitler mockingly declared a few years later, the “appendix” of the Versailles Agreement? Can the roots of the problems that later came to a head in Munich be traced to 1918? Isn’t the First Republic, like a lot of music stars, chiefly famous for dying young and tragically? How did the views of Europe and the world of Czechoslovakia change during its history? Are we the descendants of Jan Hus, or of the Hussites? Given Czech history, can the state and its citizens be constructively well-rounded and confident?

These and other questions were posed by the moderator of the TV series Historie.cs, Vladimír Kučera, and Karel Kučera to personalities with various backgrounds and outlooks. Guests: Petr Blažek, Jana Čechurová, Evžen Gál, Anna Hogenová, Lada Hubatová-Vacková, Petra Ježková, Daniel Kroupa, Karel Kučera, Vladimír Kučera, Jindřich Marek, Miroslav Michela, Karel Oliva, Petr Pithart, Maciej Ruczaj, Jan Rychlík, Michal Semín, Karel Schwarzenberg, Matěj Spurný, Martin Škorpík, Jana Švejdová, Kateřina Tučková and Stefan Zwicker.

Discussion evening on a theme that resonates in the book of interviews Stálo to za to? (Was It Worth It?) dedicated to the outstanding journalist Vladimír Kučera, who died recently.

Helmed by Karel Kučera.

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