Dr. Damjan Prelovšek - art historian and expert on modern architecture, specialized in the work of architect Jože Plečnik, Ambassador of Slovenia to the Czech Republic 1998-2002, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, writer and photographer. On the right New Year's card of Jože Plečnik.
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"The ongoing discrimination lawsuit is so disappointing and such a shame to put you through that": an excerpt from a foreign diplomat's Christmas wish to Dr. Jana Chaloupková, I fully identify with it.
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"You will die like a dog" was the response of a Czech politician to Dr. Chaloupková's question about what will happen if she does not stop fighting for her job and for justice. The various warnings and threats began slowly in 2020. Today, I am giving space to one of the other witnesses to describe a phone call he himself heard in the spring of 2021:
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"It was March 2021 and we were just getting dressed in the hallway of a friend's house in Prague. Miss Jana was trying to reach a colleague from the personnel department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because she needed to email a document. He didn't answer the phone, it was already approaching five o'clock, so we decided to go home. Suddenly the phone rang and sl. Jana put it on the microphone so that she could put on her boots at the same time. A pleasant voice came on the other side. I paid no attention to it, but soon I had to turn a deaf ear. The usual communication about a paper was followed by some shocking words:
"Do you have any money? And any work to do?´ Miss Jana did not react, and stared in surprise. "Well, I told you when I called you in Morocco. The Secretary of State is behind everything. There are meetings between him and the Ministry's close leadership. It was decided then that you would never get a job. I mean well. Anyway, you can be glad you're still alive. You stepped on somebody's business with the visa. And that's unforgivable.''
The MFA does not work according to moral criteria and not only it. What works according to them, or is governed by them, in today's world? That is why the world is inevitably plunging into another deep economic crisis. Without the foundations of morality, sooner or later, everything will inevitably collapse, and in the end it will lawfully collapse. J. A. Comenius: "It is such an animal that embraces the whole world and does what it wants with it."
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