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The Nettles of Prague
Dornberg, John | January 8, 1968 issue

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The article focuses on the conflict between intellectuals and the regime in Czechoslovakia which culminated in the censure and expulsion of several leading writers from the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the virtual suppression of "Literarily," the popular weekly journal of the Czech Writers' Union. The trouble began in February 1967, when the Czechoslovak Ministry of Culture was reorganized into two separate departments. Iris Hajek, the man generally credited with creating a more tolerant cultural climate, remained in charge of education, while Karel Roffmarrn, a doctrinaire functionary who had headed the party Central Committee's ideological commission, was named Minister of Culture.

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CZECHOSLOVAKIA -- Intellectual life; INTELLECTUAL freedom; CENSURE; POLITICAL parties; COMMUNISM & intellectuals; CZECHOSLOVAKIA
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