The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Thursday October 5th, 2023
Vaclav Havel: Resistance and Vision by Rene Wadlow
Vaclav Havel, whose birth anniversary we note on 5 October, was first noted for his resistance to a repressive government as one of the writers and first signers of Charter 77 demanding that the Czechoslovak government implement the human rights it claimed to uphold in signing the 1975 Helsinki Accord. The Charter 77 was openly signed, eventually by hundreds. The regime’s response to the publication of what it called an “anti-State” document was harsh. Most of the early signatories were arrested and spent years in prison. Jan Patoeka, a philosophy professor and chief inspiration of the Charter, died as a result of the police interrogation.
Havel started his long career by writing plays. His political essays followed later. Both his plays and essays contained detailed analyses of the working of the totalitarian system and the way it could be resisted. This type of regime creates a situation that forces all its citizens to live a lie. He wrote “Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to prevent nothing.”
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Lyrical Moment #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“The morning sunlight
Streams through a
Eucalyptus tree outside,
And the green leaves glisten,
The sun playing through branches”
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Worming #75 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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