I lived in the 20th century

Jaroslav Novák, an avid reader of old newspapers and books on history and politics, was born at the very beginning of the 20th century, lived to a relatively old age, almost to the end of the century, and remembers everything he experienced. These included economic crises, executions, concentration camps, two world wars (in one of which he even fought), one cold war, three great empires and their fall, the emergence of a fourth empire, classical democracy, fascism, the dictatorship of the proletariat, socialism with a human face, communism and its fall, the restoration of capitalism, and the collapse of a state that had been so difficult to create. And although he never left his native Prague, he lived in nine differently named states. That's really a lot for one human life; probably not many people in human history have experienced so much. Central Europe history in the twentieth century was truly a great drama that would certainly deserve its own Shakespeare. Part of this drama, to varying degrees, were the fates of a number of people and the twists and turns of their lives, which were sometimes fascinating. Their incredibly dramatic fates also embody the tragedy and ambiguity of our history during this period, in which people were torn between various ideologies.

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