"A well-mannered - even if slightly rebellious - slave will never get along with a man who has fought for his freedom by his own efforts and with the commitment of his life." Tomáš Pecina
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Yesterday I saw the premiere at Cinema City Metropol in Zličín. Its lasting message is still valid today. Against evil, the only force that evil respects is strength. Eternal "muddling through" without concrete actions cannot lead to victory, only to repeated defeats. The film brilliantly shows the unity of character, thought and action. The resistance group of the Mašín brothers was offered a film by Hollywood and made millions of dollars. They didn't have time, they wanted to join the fight in the US Army as soon as possible. More proof of their great character! The Mashins were not soldiers, they gave the order themselves. They demonstrated incredible moral maturity and strength of character. These qualities can only be appreciated by those who recognize these values themselves. How many such people will be among the honoured at Prague Castle?
From an interview with the actor Oskar Hes, who plays Josef Mašín: "What can get me out of my chair is the hypercorrectness, hyper-sensitivity and weak-mindedness of some people. It annoys me how many young people take everything personally, or get caught up in their own thoughts and solve something just to solve something. We live in freedom and prosperity, but a lot of people around me are on anti-depressants. It seems to me that they're having a bad time and then they give up. In my bubble in Prague, young people don't have an existential crisis, they have a spiritual crisis. They don't know what to fight for. We used to have a given enemy, now we don't have one and we are an enemy to ourselves. We lack motivation. We have to find a reason to do something, to work, to bring children into the world, to live."
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