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Article: OBITUARY : Jan Culik
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 8, 1995
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Jan Culik was born in time still to benefit from the all-round,
"classical" education in the tradition of the inter-war, democratic
Czechoslovak Republic. This education however failed to prepare the
members of his generation for the political cataclysms which were
to befall Czechoslovakia from 1939 onwards and left them often
rather isolated in the totalitarian decades which were to follow.
After eventually completing his secondary education (in the
early 1940s, the whole class was expelled "from all the secondary
schools in the Protectorate of Bohmen und Mahren" because a
graffito saying "Hitler is an idiot" had been discovered in the
school toilet), from 1945 Culik studied English and ...