Dvacet, třicet lesníků, dřevařů a techniků? Dodáme! Okamžitě!
Twenty or Thirty Foresters, Timbermen and Technicians? We will Deliver! Immediately!

Summary/Abstract: Were Czechoslovak experts in foreign countries only an extension of the Communist Party and the government? It depends, says one of them, Karel Rokyta. Now aged 77, the forester and lecturer spent one half of the 1980s and the 1990s in Angola and Mozambique. He surveyed their forests, lectured foresters, and also witnessed how the local, Czechoslovak and Western representations settled contradictions between what was official and what was actually happening. Why did Polytechna, a foreign trade enterprise, delegate experts to countries where civil war was raging? Why was this termed “white trade”, and why, when 66 Czech and Slovaks were kidnapped in Alto Catumbela in March 1983, were there so many applicants for the positions of Czech experts abroad?

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