Náš hlavní problém: demokratizace myslí
Our Main Problem: Democratisation of Minds

Summary/Abstract: On 8 February 2004 Mosty, Czecho-Slovak biweekly, interviewed Jiří Pehe, Director of New York University in Prague and Pavol Lukáč, the former Vice-Director of the Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association who died tragically just two days after the interview. In the interview both of them reflect the issues of democratisation process in Central Europe. As Mr. Pehe claims, the democracy consists of two factors – the institutional establishment and involvement of the society in this process. It was easy to create the mechanisms of democracy, but it is more difficult to change people which lived in totalitarian state for forty years. Therefore it is necessary to build and further develop the civil society. Mr. Lukáč stresses the fact that the civil society has built its strong basis. On the other hand he misses the democrats in the Slovak politics, the generation taking the democracy as something natural.

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