How many of the dozens of investigated generals who manipulated contracts and used the "saved" money to go on holiday to the Pacific, buy mountain bikes or even have gold "general" brooches made for civilian suits or custom underwear and T-shirts with the inscription "Section for the Development of the General Staff's Species of Forces" (a piece of brocade for seven hundred crowns) - have been demoted or convicted?
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One of the most tasteless and damaging remnants of the totalitarian past is the bowing of Czech society to ranks and titles. To satisfy the demand for titles among the uncultured power-holders, equally uncultured fraudulent university departments were even created, as in the law faculty of the University of West Bohemia or the famous "university" in Sládkovič, Slovakia, so popular especially among Brno politicians.
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Can you imagine the "quality" of leadership if there was a war? No wonder the military has never defended its country in the last 100 years. JŠ
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