Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File
by vkou on Thursday April 08, 2021 @12:44PM
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> You cannot displace 1.2M of people and try to look as a democratic state (no matter how necessary it was).
There are a number of democratic states that have happily uprooted a lot more people than that, both before, and after WW2. Most of them haven't failed.
Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File
by HideousKojima on Thursday April 08, 2021 @01:43PM
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>If the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were part of the Czechoslovakian constitution at that time, this development would not be legal.
Which wouldn't stop anything in and of itself. The current Chinese constitution allows freedom of speech, for example.
That development was not exactly legal even then, but there was no one who would stop them because the superpowers carved up Europe and this was Stalin's area. He could do what he wanted.
1.2M.. I think the current estimates are 2.4M expelled Germans, not counting the expelled Hungarians from Slovakia (many of which later returned and were granted citizenship).
However, at that time, it was not existing and, if it existed, it would be probably quite hard to put it into the legal system because of the fresh edicts against Germans. In the end, the third Czechoslovak Republic failed because of its rooted nature and kind of deserved its fate. You cannot displace 1.2M of people and try to look as a democratic state (no matter how necessary it was).