[morbicer]

It's very hard to judge someone young and naive in the 50s from today's point of view.

On the other hand, Kundera was an intellectual. For some uneducated it could have been waved away as nescience, but not for him. The criminal nature of the regime was not hidden. It put people in labor camps (a sentence which was often deadly) just for being a clergyman, a hero WW2 pilot liberating Europe or just for having homestead. It banned writers and other artists. On the other hand, the judicial murder of Milada Horakova [1] which I believe might have opened eyes to many hasn't happened yet, trailing Dvoracek's arrest just by few months.

Like I am disgusted by some of the effects of modern unbridled capitalism but I would not support any movement that restricts the liberty of fellow humans in such way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milada_Hor%C3%A1kov%C3%A1