From the forty-year history of the Communist College, only a minimal number of cases are known when high-ranking officials openly devoted themselves to the field of light meditations. Only a few times really. Immediately after the normalization process began in 1969, Gustav Husack warned local pop music that the fun was over.
Hana Zagorova (1946-2022) | Source: Profimedia
And two years later, he again switched from the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic to the general following the example of Moscow, in the well-known case of the so-called “migration practice” by Karel Gutt and others. Mention the popular content.
Ondřej Konrád: how Zagorová surprised Jakeš
biting a sweet girl
But then for decades there was nothing. The singers sang and jumped unscathed, and the secretaries did not object. Almost before the end of the dominance of one party, in the summer of 1989, Husak Milos Jacís’ successor spoke curiously about the famous singers in a legendary speech from Červený Hrádek.
And he did this by the seemingly shocking signature of one of the biggest stars of the time, Hana Zagorova, under a document of several sentences, created within the hated Charter 77. It calls, among other things, for the release of political prisoners, for the abolition of censorship and the creation of independent movements and initiatives.
And since the recording of Jaksh’s speech was immediately leaked to the public, people had a good time with the clip about a “nice girl” who, according to Jaksh’s witnesses, earns 600,000 a year and is still protesting. And the signatures of a number of other well-known personalities told them that even when TV icons are at risk of being banned and investigated, there must be something powerful in the air. At the same time, it should be noted that Zagorová was perhaps the biggest problem for beginners in many sentences.
I did not regret it, Zagorová said in the last interview on Radiožurnál about signing a few sentences
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As is known, the petition was submitted to her by members of the Sklep Theater, with whom she sometimes performed at that time. The singer read the script carefully and then thought for a moment before signing saying there was nothing in the challenge that she couldn’t agree to.
one and no account
Today it may seem like a marginal thing, but it makes a lot of sense. After all, Jakes unmistakably recognized it. He must have been confused and surprised that one of those who had kept all the doors open until now suddenly turned on them. As they say, he bites the hand that feeds him.
And let’s add, no one else from the highest echelons of pop music has ever dared follow Zagor’s gesture. And when contacted directly, they found various excuses for not joining. There is even a humiliating case where a singer was locked in the toilet for tens of minutes in front of the handlers of several sentences until they left.
Zagorová, who would not only be the Secretary-General, but went straight into uncertainty. She could not have foreseen that Gekesh’s subsequent reaction would bring her a wave of public sympathy and that some people wished to forget how she had belonged to such prominent figures in the regime for years before that.
And it did not occur to her that a significant part of the audience would then remember her with such an important courage in general with a gesture of appreciation even after 33 years, with the fact that Hana Zagorova contributed a certain part to the downfall of the college. Although, unfortunately, in a sad moment of her departure.
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