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No doubt Kundera bore responsibility for his own art, his own development and his own mistakes. However, the greater, deeper blame for his unhappy trajectory and fate lies above all with Stalinism.
In clashing bitterly over how an individual should best confront government evil, the two most famous Czech anti-communists unwittingly demonstrated how totalitarianism mangles human lives.
In clashing bitterly over how an individual should best confront government evil, the two most famous Czech anti-communists unwittingly demonstrated how totalitarianism mangles human lives.
Milan Kundera, the Czech-born author of the critically-acclaimed novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being died at the age of 94 on Tuesday, 11 July, public broadcaster Czech Television reported on on Wednesday, 12 July.