CZECH RESISTANCE
SIR,—Your reproduction on January 11 of 'savage' jokes about an enslaved nation is ill-placed. Back in 1950 the Communist regime in Prague was de- scribed in a United Press report as 'the most blood- thirsty in Europe,' measured by the number of executed opponents to dictatorship.
There were 30,000 victims among the Czechs and Slovaks who rose in Slovakia in 1944 and another 3,000 in Prague alone in 1945. They died because no help came.
A fortnight before the 1953 rising in East Berlin there were riots in Plzen. Before the riots in Poznan in 1956 there were demonstrations of students all over Czechoslovakia. Should these too have shed their blood in vain, while the West will not inter- vene even with diplomatic or economic measures!
Former Press Officer at the Prague Ministry of Foreign Affairs 37 Tregunter Road, SW 10
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