In October 2022, I was fired by
the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, where I had been
working since 2014. Seven of us, out of whom six women.
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- Shortly after the fall of communism Monika Pajerová saw herself, modestly, as an interpreter who, on the margins, helped some Civic Forum activists.
- Ten years later, she was already a Hero of the 1989 Revolution, she had almost single-handedly carried it out.
- Was the requirement for the construction of heroic figures, which emerged in 1999 along with anticommunism and attempts to exclude some citizens from the political process, really helpful?
Many
thanks to Veronika Pehe, Marián Lóži, and Jill Massino for their
critical remarks on this text.
In September 1990, I
enrolled as a student in the Faculty of Czech at the University of