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Martin M. Šimečka discusses his father here
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milan šimečka
Milan Šimečka was born in 1930 in the Czech town of Nový Bohumín.
Orphaned by the war, he attended university in Brno on a state
stipendium, studying Russian and Czech literature. He moved to
Bratislava in 1954 where he taught at the university and then
the School of Performing Arts. After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
in 1968, Simecka was dismissed from the university and thrown
out of the party. His life became devoted to dissident activities
and trying to maintain an independent culture. During the years
of Soviet occupation Šimečka was prolific in having his articles
and essays translated and published abroad, and it was for this
that he was jailed in 1981-82. After the revolution in 1989
and Václav Havel's assuming the presidency, Šimečka
was appointed advisor to the president on Czech-Slovak relations,
heading the team of presidential advisors. He remained at this
post until his death in September, 1990.
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published by TSP:
Letters from Prison
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