“Evil has its face”, and it is that of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, who delights in a pool of blood, launches this Prague magazine, which is pleased that the Czech Republic has, since 1991, moved away from the Kremlin to switch to the West.
“Putin’s War Against Our World”, title of the Czech weekly Respect, this Monday, February 28, on the cover of its issue this week, above a drawing showing a Russian president bathing in a sea of blood, impassive despite the red drops running down his face. In the background, the sky, the same ocher color as the water, makes it easy to understand that the one the magazine’s editor-in-chief designates as “Adolf Putin” literally set fire and blood not only to Ukraine, but also, more generally, to the world around it.
“It is appropriate here to thank once again [l’ancien président tchèque] Václav Havel and the other political leaders, who after the revolution [de 1989]took advantage of the window briefly opened in history to lead us towards NATO and the European Union”, can we read in the editorial. In terms of security, probably never since the departure of the last soldiers from the former Czechoslovakia in 1991, almost two years after the fall of the communist regime, have the Czechs felt as much as these days the importance of their membership of the Atlantic Alliance and the European community.
Respect here recalls a “visionary thinking” by Václav Havel from a speech which, at the beginning of the 1990s, was addressed to the leaders of Western countries:
In a region as exposed as ours, when it comes to the fate of Prague, Warsaw or Budapest in modern history, it is never just about their fate, but also always about the fate of freedom on this planet.”
And “Of course”, it is the same principle that applies today to fate “from Kyiv”.
“Evil has its face”
For the Prague weekly, no more room for doubt: Putin has shown “his true face”. “When he announced his intentions on Ukrainian territory on television, he sounded like a thug on the street. It was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler’s old speeches on Czechoslovakia, in which he cried out his deep hatred of his democratic neighbour. The Russian dictator, too, has indicated with obvious hatred and contempt that he is ready to liquidate the neighboring country. It was very clear that he was enjoying this moment when all the attention in the world was focused on him. Evil had its face.”
Also according to the author:
It is remarkable that since at least the middle of the XXe century, each new generation had to experience what the Kremlin really is. A power terrified of people who do not want to live in slavery, for whom the borders of states serve only for the navigation of its tanks and which considers that human life is worth no more than a chip of wood when of cutting down a forest.”
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A rare Czech title to offer a complex analysis of current events in the world, Respekt has become, over the years, since its launch in 1989, following the fall of the former communist regime, the reference media for the written press. in
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