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Marcel Strýko. Příběh radžajógového kněze košické Komuny
Marcel Strýko: The story of the raja yoga priest of Košice’s Commune

Author(s): Mirek Vodrážka
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Marcel Strýko; Košice; Czechoslovakia; dissent; underground;

Summary/Abstract: The text demonstrates an alternative way of life of the Slovak underground artist, philosopher and shortly also politician Marcel Strýko and his Košice friends. The Communist secret police spied on the young people for a long time and carried out systematic destructive measures to prevent their independent cultural and religious activities. At the end of 1989, a fateful connection with the Prague dissidents led Marcel Strýko to adopt a unique nonconformist attitude and during the subsequent disintegration of the Czechoslovak state he publicly opposed nationalism and anti-Semitism, advocating the idea of maintaining the common state.

  • Issue Year: IX/2015
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 82-90
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Czech
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