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Appendices to the human profile of President Edvard Beneš

This INTERVIEW interview with Mr. Geza Dunajzsky was broadcast on Kossuth Rádio on August 2, 2020on the Sunday program Without Borders on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the publication of the Benes Decrees. The reporter was Mária Haják, radio correspondent in Bratislava - quote:

This aroused my interest in seeking an explanation of how someone could be - I can't find a better word now - such a scoundrel that he deceived all the superpowers, France, England and even the United States. The only one with whom he found great understanding from the beginning was the big Slavic brother, the Soviet Union, but I have the feeling from certain sources that even there they did not trust Benes very much.

It also turned out that the Soviets had reason not to trust him, because Benes was spying on them too. Now it is no secret that Benes was a double agent. He was passing information directly to Stalin in the Soviet Union about the upcoming decisions of the French and English governments, and in the same way he was supplying internal information about Stalin's plans to the French and English governments. Benes was thus a scoundrel of great calibre, who would also surely have won the Nobel Prize for Scoundrels for his diplomatic exploits. But was he really such a great diplomat that he deserved to have a statue of him in Prague's Hradčany? Because the fact is that his statue is there. But at what cost did he achieve it? The Czech people and nation should consider this more carefully, because it is a great shame for the Czech nation to have a statue of such a racist, war criminal as Edvard Benešin Prague Castle. Full interview in Czech>

There is a theoretical proposition that I find increasingly true. Let me state it. You won't find anything about it in law textbooks.

Law (as a system) is a product and therefore an instrument of actual social conception. The main (unwritten) function of law (actual legal practice), is to protect the social conception, as it actually is, from non-conceptual changes. If the system of law fulfils this function, then law works. If the real social conception is based on a large-scale criminal foundation, systemic violations of written law, and crypto-fascism as the tools necessary to exercise power over people, then HER legal system protects all of this primarily in consequence, not eliminates it. And if it does, then the law is working properly and not not not working (!).

Law "can only afford" to remove and address those elements in society that are superfluous and expendable to its realistic conception as it currently exists. What the written law declares is not at all relevant. It is such a misleading advertisement for the people. Only the societal (conceptual) consequences of its enforcement are relevant. Hopefully it will somehow work in someone else's mind too, in relation to ALL those "legal solutions to the current situation".

The granddaughter of Dominik Čipera, Tomáš Bat'a's closest associate, is one of the driving forces of the Czech-Czech community in Ottawa today. The Community Outreach and Library strives to make it more than just a meeting place for the language of the ancestors.

Michelle Chipera's family came to Canada in 1948. Her grandfather, Dominik Čipera, was a board member and director of the Bata Works in Zlín, mayor of Zlín, and a minister in the Beran and Elias governments.