18 декабря 2011 года не стало Вацлава Гавела....

On December 18, 2011, Vaclav Havel passed away. Listen to how his thoughts from the 1978 essay sound modern: “The post-totalitarian system affects a person at every step, but does it in the gloves of ideology. That is why life in the system is so comprehensively saturated with hypocrisy and lies: the government of bureaucrats is called the popular government; the working class enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as its complete liberation; depriving people of information is called providing access to it; using power to manipulate is called the state control of the government, and the usurpation of the judiciary is called the observation of legality; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is seen as supporting the oppressed; the lack of freedom of expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; the prohibition of free thinking becomes the most scientific view; military occupation becomes fraternal help, since the regime is captivated by its own lies, it can falsify anything. He fakes the past. He falsifies the present, as well as falsifies the future. "Original text: https://tavaana.org/sites/default/files/The%20Power%20of%20the%20Powerless.pdf.