Final Word from Thursday, November 20, 2025
The news cycle has turned back to Filip Turek of the Motorists, in part because he said on the Nov. 17 holiday that the Velvet Revolution 36 years ago was organized by the StB and by those who shepherded the Communists to elect Václav Havel as president. This was met with general condemnation in the mainstream media. Yet the revolution was indeed arranged by the "intelligence elite, by the intellectual pinnacle of the criminal regime," at least according to ex-Finance Min. Miroslav Kalousek. He told TOP 09's party congress 10 years ago that the "nomenklatura Communists" had a significant head start in all post-Communist countries and that this head start permanently damaged the path to freedom of these countries, because it undermined the trust of the unprivileged. This could explain why the mainstream media rushed to label Turek's claim as nonsense. Many of the country's opinion leaders derive directly or indirectly from this "nomenklatura" and have an undeclared conflict of interest about Nov. 17. [ Czech Republic president election StB secret police ]
Glossary of difficult words
to shepherd - to guide or direct in a particular direction;
pinnacle - the most successful point; the culmination;
head start - an advantage granted or gained at the beginning of something;
to derive - to arise from or originate in (a specified source).