Karel Havlíček Borovský | photo: CTK
October 30, 202120:00 Unlock the article National martyr or martyr of the nation? Two hundred years ago, on October 31, 1821, Karel Havlíček Borovský was born, a journalist, poet, briefly a politician, a person with the gift of argumentation and originality, who refused compromises in personal and public life, Czech writer and blogger Veronika Valíková writes in a commentary for MF DNES .Due to the repression and internment in Brixen, Karel Havlíček Borovský is often referred to as a victim of authoritarianism and a national martyr. But the sad end of his life was also marked by the fear and passivity of friends and former admirers who were afraid of state power or simply did not want to add to their worries at the time of the unification of the empire.
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