What the Czechs are thirty (or one hundred) years after
What the Czechs are thirty (or one hundred) years after

Summary/Abstract: Right around the centennial, remembering the birth of the first Czechoslovak Republic, i.e., in 2018 the Czechs were shocked to find themselves in a situation of severe crisis. It is probably not an overstatement that most of the Czechs, not exactly as individuals, but as a nation shared a strong sense of crisis. The political air indeed smelled foul. It was not the crisis of social or economic welfare, or it was not primarily about that. There hang around a fierce sentiment that touched upon their collective existence. However, the collective sense of crisis was not perceived as the same crisis in any certain way. On the contrary, and it was exactly in the core of the crisis, the situation was conceptualized and evaluated in sharply contrasting ways. True, the problem was at the given moment not entirely unique: the sense of being a divided nation had already been spread globally, not in the least in the UK (see Brexit), or the US (see Trump); and no surprise, in the rest of Central-Europe, too.

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