Marxism and death.

“In the five years that have passed since the Russian army invaded the home of Thomas, Prague has changed: the people he met on the street were different from before. Half of his friends had emigrated and half that was left half dead. That is a fact that will not be recorded by any historian; the years following the Russian invasion were years of exile, the frequency of deaths was much higher than before. I speak not only of the cases (rather rare) for someone being chased to death, as Jan Prochazka. At fourteen days the radio station aired daily on your private conversations, he entered the hospital. Cancer that probably slept before his body suddenly blossomed as a rose. It operated in the presence of police who, after realizing that the novelist was sentenced to death, ceased to be interested in him and let him die in the arms of his wife. “

"But also those who died were not directly pursued by anyone. The Hopelessness that had gripped the country penetrated the souls to the bodies and the wreckage. Some fleeing desperately for the regime, which wanted to present him honors and obligations and to appear alongside the new rulers. Thus died fleeing the love of the regime, the poet Frantisek Hrubín. Culture Minister, which desperately hiding, caught him when he was in the coffin. Delivered to him a speech about the poet's love for the Soviet Union. Maybe pretend Hrubín wake with that scandal. But the world was so ugly that nobody wanted to rise from the dead” Milan Kundera. “La insoportable levedad del ser”. 1984. Original title: Nesnesitelná lehkost byti.