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April 11th, 2007 issue

Buried secrets

These things have to be put in perspective (“Slogging through the past,” News, April 4–10). Václav Havel did his compulsory military service in the Czechoslovak People’s Army, the army that defended the communist regime. So does this make Havel a defender of the communist regime?
These archives provide only partial information. The file does not say if the person who signed up to one of the many organizations did it under duress or threats. Therefore I do understand that the Social Democratic Party doesn’t want this archive thrown into the open without being put into perspective.
Alfonz Cicero
Prague
Hidden crimes
Good job on the article (“Buried deep in communist-era archives,” News, April 4–10). If I still lived in Prague, I would be nervous if I were one of the families who got rich in the 1989–95 era. Most of these people received property that wasn’t theirs, but they were old party members, so they distributed the wealth among themselves.
One of the reasons they don’t want to open up the files is because most of the people in power now, politically and economically, have relatives that are in those files. I can’t wait till we get a memorial for what they put us through.
Frank Chytil
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
Sincerity doubted
“The government and its authorities should not stand in the way of entrepreneurial activities.” (“Open access,” Business, April 4–10)
The main purpose of government, as any Czech bureaucrat knows, is to do everything in its power to prevent entrepreneurial activities.
This plan goes against the grain so forcefully that it is certain to fail. The very premise — that governments want to promote small businesses — is so ludicrous it is not even funny.
Peter Andrews
Prague
Market saturation
These markets have gone too far. (“Markets, cafés ‘destroying’ center,” News, April 4–10)
I’m sick of them. It’s bad enough that we have to be bombarded with advertisements every which way we turn, but now we can’t visit the most beautiful parts of the city without the noise and super crowds that they bring with them.
I realize there are always tourists around the area, but with the stalls taking up the area the crowds are more concentrated and the breathing room less. It used to be only at Christmas time that the square was a market place, and then it seemed all right because it was a nice change.
Now, it’s just too much and very few people seem to care.
Dan Padolsky
Prague 7


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