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by morbicer 1052 days ago
Of course that's just my hunch why he always visited home country in the secret.

The evidence is

direct:

- the original police report of Miroslav Dvořáček's arrest

witness:

- Iva Militká, one of the persons involved in the arrest

indirect:

- police lecture from 1952 made by interior minister Jerman. Kundera is only mentioned by initials but it's another piece of the puzzle https://www.lidovky.cz/domov/novy-objev-udani-v-kauze-milana...

There's a huge Kundera biography written by Jan Novák. Critics say it's biased but it's well sourced. It paints Kundera's character as someone who could easily do it.

I guess the main evidence is the police report. Secret police was of course known to blackmail people and fabricate things. Everybody accused of collaborating with them used the defense that all documents were made up. There were other several high profile people that were accused and used this defense but eventually enough evidence was discovered and the people admitted guilt.

With Kundera, the "blackmail" angle is weak. The record was not attached to his file, it was forgotten in the file of pilot Dvořáček who was arrested. Also at that time Kundera was just communist student functionary, not someone famous worth blackmailing.

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For someone unfamiliar with the specifics this was an interesting rabbit hole to go into. I was curious what Dvořáček thought about it. It looks like, in the end, "neither he nor his wife had any doubts about Kundera's role."