The most controversial government in the Czech Republic was the government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala. It was the most corrupt government connected to the mafia, which had mafia corruption affairs such as the Bitcoin case and the Dozimetr case. In addition, Petr Fiala's political nominee, the head of Czech Radio, René Zavoral, spread chauvinism and racism against the Slovak nation. Czech Radio, which is a public service medium in state ownership, is somewhat reminiscent of the state media that existed in Nazi Germany against the Jews.
A series of articles about Czech media
This article is part of a series of three articles about the Czech media. To understand the context of this article, I recommend reading the other two in the series.
The obsession of Czech journalists to give Slovakia negative publicity. Hidden racism in the Czech media. Propaganda, half-truths, hoaxes https://filozofia.nett.to/politika/sk/dezinformacie-hoaxy-a-propaganda-v-ceskych-mediach-o-situacii-na-slovensku/
Czech Radio Spreads Hatred and Chauvinism Against the Slovak Nation https://filozofia.nett.to/politika/sk/cesky-rozhlas-siri-nenavist-a-sovinizmus-proti-slovenskemu-narodu/
Ivo Lukačovič. An influential Czech neo-Nazi who hates Slovaks https://filozofia.nett.to/politika/sk/ivo-lukacovic-vplyvny-cesky-neonacista-ktory-nenavidi-slovakov/
Article title: Memento of August 1968 according to Fico
Author: Ondřej Konrád
Another article full of hoaxes, taking things out of context, and other nonsense. The author of the Czech radio article was apparently inspired by the title of the previous article in Denník N. The author of the article is completely out of touch with reality, he absolutely does not understand the political situation in Slovakia. It seems to me similar to someone pontificating on a highly specialized topic of which they are not an expert and which they do not understand at all. The author invents complete nonsense about Robert Fico, but does not criticize things about Fico that could be justifiably criticized.
Furthermore, it is extremely controversial in itself that Czech Radio allows the category of commentaries at all. Czech Radio is probably the only public service media in Europe that allows this category of journalism. This category of journalism is by principle always extremely subjective and always extremely politically and ideologically biased, it does not even attempt to play on balance or objectivity, and is more typical of private newspapers.
Czech Radio Plus
Czech Radio Plus is definitely at the bottom of Czech journalism. They invite the biggest extremists from the far left to their show. All the guests who comment on Slovakia spread disinformation that the situation in Slovakia is far worse than in Hungary. Among the guests are, for example, extremists Bohumil Pečinka, Petros Michopulos, Arpád Soltész, Matúš Kostolný, Richard Vašečka, or Zionist Jakub Szántó.
Due to the imbalance and lack of objectivity of Czech Radio, I have already submitted two complaints to the Czech regulatory body, the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting. Now it remains to be seen whether it is a truly functioning body or just an office that only works for show.
Czech Radio is too explicitly violating the law, and it is very sad that law-breaking has become the new norm.
By the way, when I criticized them for violating the law in a comment under a video on the Czech Radio YouTube channel and indicated that I would file a complaint, my comment was deleted – they don't have a clear conscience, and the radio management is well aware that they are violating the law and are afraid of facing sanctions for it.
Copy of the email to the Czech regulatory media authority: Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting
This is an extremely amateurish response to my initiative, where they defend the "good" work of the moderator Tachéci.
Dear Mr. Chairman Václav Mencl, you surely cannot be serious about what you wrote to me in your reply. Are you kidding me? How can you so conspicuously and explicitly defend breaking the law? In Slovakia, there are functional regulatory institutions, where for breaking the law, the regulated entity, be it a radio or television station, always receives at least a verbal warning, if not a fine. You obviously do not know the law, so I would like to introduce you to it:
Act No. 231/2001 Coll. Act on Radio and Television Broadcasting and on Amendments to Other Acts § 31 Programme Content (2) The broadcasting operator shall provide objective and balanced information necessary for the free formation of opinions. (3) The broadcasting operator is obliged to ensure that the principles of objectivity and balance are observed in news and political-publicist programmes and, in particular, that no political party or movement, or their opinions or the opinions of individual groups of the public, are unilaterally favoured in the overall broadcast programme, taking into account their real position in political and social life.
Dear Mr. Mencl: How can you defend such a blatant violation of the law? Do you not realize that propaganda in the Czech media can lead to racist prejudices against the Slovak nation? Do you feel no social responsibility? Does ethics mean anything to you at all?
You can't imagine the serious social consequences of propaganda in the Czech media. One of my Czech friends, under the influence of propaganda, even told me, scared to death, that he was afraid that because of the Slovak government, Russian tanks would be running all over Slovakia like in '68. This is because of madmen like Pečinka – and there are more like Pečinka.
I have nothing against giving space to far-left extremists like Pečinka, but the law also requires a balance of guests. Guests cannot consist only of extremists from one ideological spectrum.
In your statement, you also refer to Matúš Kostolný as an "experienced journalist". I would not consider him an experienced journalist because, although he claims to be an investigative journalist, in the case of the corruption subsidy scandals of Michal Šimečka and his family, where demonstrably 90% was stolen, Denník N sought all possible arguments to defend these corrupt schemes.
As a very experienced anti-corruption activist who communicated very intensively with Denník N, I also have evidence that Denník N was doing propaganda. I sent Denník N one of the biggest corruption scandals in history, how 65 million euros were stolen at the Ministry of Environment under Matovič's and Heger's government, and nothing came out. They censor corruption for one politician, but defend corruption for another.
Dear Mr. Mencl, unless you start doing your job, I will file a criminal complaint against you for exceeding your authority or for neglecting your official duty, and I will also file a civil lawsuit against you to have your position reviewed by the court.
The Czech Radio Council is not working. It arrogantly violates the law. Perhaps even the authorities in Zimbabwe adhere to the law more than the Czech Radio Council. They refused to deal with my complaint.
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Some Czech authorities, such as the Czech Radio Council, arrogantly violate the law. Sometimes it seems to me that the enforceability of law in the Czech Republic is slowly worse than in Zimbabwe.
The Chairman of the Council of the Czech Republic, Ondřej Matouš, is committing Abuse of Authority by an Official (Criminal Code, § 329), which I also pointed out to him in an email and cited § 329.
If a police officer decided not to deal with any criminal complaint, they would lose their job the next day and hours of unpleasant interrogations from the police inspectorate would await them.
A complaint and a petition to the Czech Radio submitted to the Council of the Czech Republic is something similar to a criminal complaint. The Council of the Czech Republic does not have the right but the obligation to deal with every petition regardless of whether they like it or not. It cannot choose which complaint it will and which it will not deal with.
Abuse of authority by an official (Criminal Code, § 329)
(1) An official who, with the intention of causing harm or other serious damage to another, or of obtaining an unlawful benefit for himself or another,
a) exercises its authority in a manner contrary to another legal regulation,
b) exceeds their authority, or
c) fails to fulfil an obligation arising from its competence,
shall be punishable by imprisonment for one to five years or by a ban on activity.
(2) The offender shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of three to ten years,
a) if by the act referred to in paragraph 1 he procures for himself or another a considerable benefit,
b) commits such an act against another person because of their actual or perceived race, ethnicity, nationality, political belief, religion or because they are actually or allegedly non-religious,
c) if such an act causes a serious disruption in the activities of a state administration body, local government, court or other public authority,
d) if such an act causes a serious disruption in the activities of a legal or natural person who is an entrepreneur,
e) commits such an act by abusing the helplessness, dependence, distress, mental weakness or inexperience of another, or
(f) if such an act causes significant damage.
(3) The offender shall be punished by imprisonment for five to twelve years or by forfeiture of property,
a) if by the act referred to in paragraph 1 he procures for himself or another a benefit of a large extent, or
b) if such an act causes damage of a large extent.
(4) Preparation is punishable.
Propaganda in Czech Radio. Luboš Kreč: Successful Slovaks are moving to Prague
https://plus.rozhlas.cz/lubos-krec-slovak-success-stories-are-moving-to-prague-9364104
I just hope that this chauvinistic propaganda was only on the Czech Radio website and was not broadcast. The article states that all successful people are moving from Slovakia to the Czech Republic because it is allegedly unbearable in Slovakia. Personally, I think it's nonsense and a hoax. They'd better deal with the scandals of the Czech government on Czech Radio. There are at least as many domestic problems, scandals and failures in Czech politics as in Slovak politics.
The objectivity of the media in the Czech Republic is seriously threatened. The Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (RRTV). Its controversial chairman is the politician Václav Mencl (ODS).
While several chauvinistic journalists in the Czech media are emotionally upset about Slovakia being a black hole in Europe and a banana republic, Czech journalists have forgotten about the internal political problems of Fiala's government. Independent democratic institutions in the Czech Republic are at risk.
Media objectivity in the Czech Republic is in serious danger. Although the Slovak Minister of Culture is sharply criticized by the media for her personnel nominations, even she did not dare to commit such an extreme as the Fiala government did. Not one of her nominees is a politician. The media constantly distracts attention from essential things. I recently communicated with Mr. Mencl (head of the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting, which regulates the media) on the topic of law violations in Czech Television in the area of anti-Slovak chauvinism. When I looked at his profile, I was horrified by the disaster that the Fiala government produced. While Czech media spreads propaganda about Slovakia being a black hole of Europe, the nomination of Václav Mencl , who is an absolute disaster for this position, completely escaped the attention of journalists. Such a thing is unique even by European standards, for a member of a political party to be appointed directly to such a position, even though strict apoliticality and non-partisanship are required for the position. If Babiš did something similar and appointed a member of the ANO party as the head of the RRTV, the media would drive 50,000 people into the streets to protest. Moreover, Mr. Mencl has never worked in the media and is not an expert on the topic at all, which is another unique thing. Not to mention that he is an 81-year-old grandfather who no longer has enough strength to handle such a responsible position. The main thing is that propaganda claims about Slovakia that democracy has supposedly ceased to exist here, but somehow no one is upset whether democracy in the Czech Republic is not endangered by such "dictatorial" undemocratic practices of Petr Fiala. For comparison, the Slovak Minister of Culture did not nominate a politician to subordinate organizations or to positions where being apolitical is not so important.
Scandal: Czech Radio Director, Politician René Zavoral (ODS)
While several chauvinistic journalists in the Czech media are emotionally upset about Slovakia being a black hole in Europe and a banana republic, Czech journalists have forgotten about the internal political problems of Fiala's government. Independent democratic institutions in the Czech Republic are at risk.
Babiš generously chose opposition politician Zavoral as the head of the radio in 2016. Fiala's government was not so generous; it did not appoint a politician for ANO but re-elected Zavoral to extend his term. However, this was a conflict of interest and contrary to democratic principles. It is not for nothing that Czech radio is full of anti-Slovak chauvinism in the spirit of Fiala's policy. It is not ideal in Czech Television either, but significantly better, because the head is not a politician.
In Europe, politicians in public service television are unique. There should be an apolitical expert. For comparison, in Slovakia, the same functions have always been held by apolitical nominees.
Czech Radio positive news
Although the Czech regulator did not officially agree with my complaint, Czech Radio probably received at least a verbal reprimand. For the first time in a very long time, a Slovak politician was invited to the show to balance the information.
The director of Czech Television, Jan Souček, is a great hero who went against the current and stood up for the Slovaks.
In the Czech Republic, thank God, there is also some positive news. The director of Czech Television punished a famous Czech presenter for chauvinistic statements against Slovaks, when he compared a Slovak top politician to Hitler in an absolutely tasteless way. I cannot imagine any Slovak journalists commenting on Czech politicians in such a juicy, emotional and hateful way. Of course, chauvinistic Czech media such as blesk.cz are furious that he received a fair punishment. I appreciate the efforts of the director of Czech Television, when, like a true hero and martyr, he decided to take an unpopular but ethically correct step. He decided to go against the current. Jan Souček is a small modern-day Jan Hus. Jan Souček will go down in Czech history as a hero similar to Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš, who heroically stood up against Nazism in the Czech Republic when they assassinated Heydrich. Even in the Czech Republic, there is currently a small neo-Nazism against Slovaks.
https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/zpravy-politika/808373/ostre-skrty-v-ceske-televizi-zarizli-moravce-rusi-se-i-dalsi-porady-a-rada-ct-udelila-vytku-souckovi.html
Blesk.cz. Interview with Petr Fiala. PR marketing campaign in favor of Petr Fiala
This interview is the absolute bottom of Czech journalism. This is not journalistic work, but a PR marketing campaign in favor of Petr Fiala. Not a single critical question was asked by the moderator. No confrontation by the moderator towards Petr Fiala about his lies, of which there were many. Lies about the Czech Republic being independent of Russian oil and gas, although the opposite is true. Fiala's lies about the Czech Republic being fully independent of Russian gas, while Slovakia, on the contrary, is dependent. The real facts are that Slovakia and the Czech Republic are equally dependent or independent. Slovakia is working intensively on diversifying its sources. I thought that no one could surpass some Slovak media. Blesk.cz surpassed them. 😨 I also asked the moderator to ask Fiala about the fact that the entire Czech ammunition initiative is being implemented in Slovakia. Of course, he did not ask this question. The goal of the moderator and Petr Fiala was to portray Slovakia in the worst possible light. The chauvinism of some Czech journalists and some Czech politicians towards the Slovak nation is a serious problem 👎 https://www.blesk.cz/clanek/zpravy-politika/808222/fiala-v-blesku-kremlu-neverim-zelenskeho-mi-bylo-lito-vysle-ceske-vojaky-na-ukrajinu.html
Influential Czech extremists obsessed with hatred towards Slovaks: Bohumil Pečinka and Petros Michopulos. YouTube channel Kecy a politika
These two wretches make no secret of the fact that they consider Slovaks to be an inferior nation. This is evident from several of their statements. I don't follow these simpletons much, but I listened to one podcast where they commented on the assassination attempt on Robert Fico. Stupid and primitive conspiracy theories on the topic of the assassination, for example, that Fico staged the assassination himself to increase his popularity and find an excuse to establish a dictatorship (well, surprisingly, Fico did not establish any dictatorship, we can state with hindsight). Absolutely twisted and fabricated nonsense that they put into the mouths of Slovak government politicians at a press conference on the topic of the assassination. I saw that press conference and certainly such things were not said there as Pečinka claimed to have heard. Pečinka was inventing total phantasmagoria with the aim of spreading hatred. It must be said that they spread such malice at a time when the Slovak Prime Minister was fighting for his life in the hospital and it was not certain whether he would survive. Total hyenism and it is a criminal offense.
I am seriously concerned about the mental health of these two gentlemen. It's at least at the level of needing a psychologist's help. Stupid conspiracies on the same level as anti-vaxxers who claimed "don't get vaccinated because Bill Gates wants to microchip you."
Some hateful videos against Slovakia have up to 90,000 views, and we cannot pretend that this does not affect the public opinion of Czech citizens.
In addition, the schizoid Pečinka presents his extremist feces in the daily Echo24, where he works as an editor / journalist.
Pečinka was also a guest on Czech Radio, where he also spread malice and hatred against Slovakia. The show was Osobnost Plus, hosted by Barbora Tachecí. Who is in charge of Czech Radio when they give space to such madmen?
Petr Fiala dictatorially abused power and completely politically controlled Czech Radio. Propaganda like in the socialist era. Czech Radio spreads crazy hoaxes: free media have supposedly completely disappeared in Slovakia. And Babiš is supposedly a dictator.
The title of the show is extremely emotional and misleading:
"The European Commission does not have a magic wand to restore freedom to the media in Slovakia, says a local journalist".
https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/evropska-komise-nema-carovny-proutek-kterym-vrati-svobodu-mediim-na-slovensku_2504211117_adn
What is the truth? The truth is that, unlike Hungary, the Slovak media, in addition to factual criticism, are also full of very emotional criticism against the government, or biased activist propaganda, so there can be no talk of a lack of freedom.
Furthermore, the amendment to the Act on Public Media is very strikingly similar to the Czech law. While before, the director of public media was elected directly by the parliament, today, as in the Czech Republic, the head of television and radio is appointed and dismissed by the radio council. To make matters worse, the Slovak law is far better than the Czech one – the law strictly prohibits a politician or a person with ties to a political party from being the head. On the contrary, in the Czech Republic, Petr Fiala arrogantly abused power and installed a politician loyal to him from the ODS party in the Czech radio – these are the dictatorial practices of Fiala's government. In democratic states, such a position is always strictly apolitical, and until now, all governments have respected this, and the head of radio and television has never been a politician.
I would be more concerned about the state of democracy in the Czech Republic than in Slovakia.
Radio and Television Slovakia are far more critical of the government than some commercial television stations. So the propaganda that the alleged "dictator" Robert Fico abused power and took control of public media is absurd.
A journalist from Euractiv, a medium financed by the European Commission, was invited to the show. Euractiv is a very loud propaganda in favor of the Progressive Slovakia party, an extremely left-oriented medium, often publishing various hoaxes in favor of the Green Deal and the eco-fascist form of ecology. Euractiv is also among the most aggressive anti-government activist media.
Today, the European Commission is facing a huge corruption scandal, that it financed various projects in a non-transparent way, or that there were various secret contracts with not only green NGOs. For example, Czech MEP Tomáš Zdechovský addressed the problem. I wouldn't put my hand in the fire that the Euractiv portal is also part of this corruption scheme.
I have repeatedly reminded the Czech regulatory supervisory authority, the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting (RRTV), that Czech legislation very clearly prohibits the dissemination of one-sided political propaganda. They must invite guests from more than just one opinion spectrum to their programs. The problem is that Petr Fiala arrogantly and dictatorially abused power and appointed a politician from the ODS party to the position of head of the RRTV. This is something impossible in a democratic country; it has never happened even in Slovakia.
Mr. Mencl just arrogantly laughed at me, saying that the law means nothing to him and that Czech Radio can violate the law as much as it wants. And why should he fine his party colleague, the head of the radio? A huge conflict of interest!!! A conflict of interest that is impossible in a functioning democratic country. But dictator Petr Fiala has completely destroyed democratic institutions.
It is very easy for Czech Radio and a journalist from Euractiv to spread hoaxes about the demise of free media, and it is very easy for them to kick Slovak politicians when they were not given any space to defend themselves on Czech Radio. A very arrogant abuse of power by Czech Radio. And the media has enormous power.
Furthermore, the Euractiv journalist complains that the Slovak government partially refuses to communicate with journalists. The only problem is that all politicians do the same, including Petr Fiala and his government. Fiala only gave interviews to the most sympathetic media, which are the least critical of him, such as blesk.cz. While Slovak politicians hold press conferences on a daily basis, where they face critical questions from even the most hostile media, Fiala's government and Czech ministers hold press conferences about once every six months. Democracy in the Czech Republic does not work as well as in Slovakia.
I perceive the propaganda program of Czech Radio editor Filip Nerada as a well-timed pre-election campaign in favor of the ODS party. The goal is to divert attention from Fiala's incompetence and other scandals of his government.
However, the dictatorial practices of the Fiala government do not end here. We do not see any criticism of the Fiala government in Czech Radio, but we do find aggressive criticism of Andrej Babiš as part of the pre-election campaign, which is an outrageous violation of the law. The criticism of Babiš is all the more outrageous because he is an opposition politician who is not in power and there is nothing to criticize about him when he does nothing.
https://www.irozhlas.cz/komentare/rostouci-pritazlivost-autoritarskych-vudcu_2504131630_nel
https://www.irozhlas.cz/komentare/proc-babis-uz-nemava-svou-cervenou-ksiltovkou_2504110629_job
In Slovakia, unlike in the Czech Republic, thank God, democratic institutions are functioning and public media have never been abused for such blatant and conspicuous political struggles within the pre-election campaign.
Slovakia is a role model for the Czech Republic, even in the case of TASR (News Agency of the Slovak Republic), where employees do not spare criticism of Robert Fico. In the Czech Republic, something unimaginable, the Czech News Agency is a loud propaganda mouthpiece of Fiala's government with a chauvinistic attitude against Slovakia, it did not devote a word of criticism to Fiala's government. State employee Hrabko, a TASR commentator, really laid into Robert Fico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_eAYaKiKQ In the Czech Republic, it is unimaginable for the media to be truly free. The only one who was for free media was Jan Souček, and they liquidated and dismissed him too.
Czech Radio invited the crazy extremist Rastislav Káčer to the show.
https://www.mujrozhlas.cz/osobnost-plus/fico-uz-vladnout-neumi-nechce-v-moskve-bude-stat-na-tribune-vedle-krvaveho-diktatora
Although many wonderful people live in Slovakia, the source of Czech media is the biggest waste of the Slovak nation and the biggest outcasts.
Inviting the extremist Káčer to the show is the same extreme as if Slovak Radio invited Filip Turek or Tomio Okamura to the show to inform Slovaks about the political events in the Czech Republic regarding Fiala's government.
They've gone completely mad at Czech Radio. These people are not interested in the truth. They are not interested in what Slovak politicians either do or don't do. They are only interested in how the biggest extremists interpret the situation. And it's not just Czech Radio doing this, but other Czech media as well.
Rastislav Káčer is a former member and still active associate of the Democrats party, which faced the biggest corruption affair in the history of the Slovak Republic in the area of corruption schemes in nature protection.
At the time when Robert Fico was fighting for his life in the hospital, Káčer made fun of it and called the assassin a poor man who was "bothered" by the police.
https://www.mojevideo.sk/video/4017d/exminister_kacer_sa_zastava_atentatnika_na_roberta_fica.html
A copy of the email I sent to a chauvinistic editor of Czech Radio
Dear Ms. Kamila Pešeková,
Could you please focus more on the internal Czech problems of the Fiala government and only then on Slovakia? The Fiala government has enough scandals. First, focus on the Czech Republic, and only then on Slovakia.
I understand that you have a terrible working atmosphere in Czech Radio, totalitarian practices like in communism, and you have a strict ban on criticizing Fiala's government, but could you please stop the propagandistic criticism of Slovakia?
With respectful greetings ….
The obsession of Czech journalists to do negative advertising for Slovakia. Hidden racism in the Czech media. Propaganda, half-truths, hoaxes
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Hello,
Dear Ms. Kamila Pešeková,
I would like to introduce myself to you,
I am an anti-corruption activist and I also monitor the Czech media. I have very serious reservations about the work of the Czech media, in terms of elementary journalistic ethics and verification of information about events in Slovakia.
The new fashion trend of the Czech media is to divert attention from the scandals of domestic Czech politics and focus more attention on the scandals of Slovak politics, which I consider absurd, irrational, and it smacks of chauvinism.
The attachment I am sending you, where I discuss the issue of chauvinism, is very important. It is a very high-quality analysis with specific examples and evidence. This is a very serious problem that is being downplayed in the Czech Republic. In the last 100 years, relations between Slovaks and Czechs have never been as bad as they are today, and this is mainly due to the Czech media, which are obsessed with giving Slovakia negative publicity.
What's really bizarre is that the Czech Republic is more concerned with the scandals of the Slovak government than with its own, in order to divert attention from the scandals of the Fiala government.
In democratic countries, the director of a public service media is always a strictly apolitical function, unfortunately this is not the case for the Czech Republic.
In democratic countries, it is absolutely unacceptable for the head of a public media outlet to be a politician. This is something absolutely absurd and only possible in dictatorial countries like Hungary or Turkey. Let Slovakia be a positive example for you, where, according to the current law, there is a strict ban on the head of radio or television being a politician or a person with ties to a political party.
I also focus on the topic of the objectivity of the Slovak media and their monitoring. Based on my extensive experience communicating with Slovak journalists as an anti-corruption activist, few have delved as deeply into the media's inner workings as I have. Based on my experience with the Slovak media, I can better evaluate the Czech media as well. Not even in my worst dream would I have imagined that the media would be so bad and terrifying. The media is a far dirtier and far less transparent game than politics. While politics at least has some rules, the media does not. The biggest corruption scandals are censored by the media because more sophisticated corrupt groups bribe investigative journalists to keep silent. Slovak journalists overdo it by getting involved in political battles, and what is most tragicomic is that the journalists I know are themselves part of corrupt schemes moralize the most about politicians. I also consider it a mistake that Czech journalists blindly copy and even more hyperbolize what Slovak journalists have written without any fact-checking. My extensive experience has taught me that one must be very critical of journalists and verify and analyze several times from multiple sources whether they are telling the truth.
With kind regards
Czech Radio commentator Luboš Palata mocks Slovakia. He does not hide his nationalism, superiority, and condescending attitude towards the Slovak nation. He rejoices in the chauvinistic moods in the Czech Republic against Slovaks.
Link to the article here.
Instead of substantive criticism of Babiš, he just arrogantly attacks him. Disgusting misuse of Czech radio for political agitation in favor of the ODS party during the pre-election campaign. While Slovak public media operate transparently, Czech radio is full of hard propaganda like in socialism.
The author writes his article in a nationalist context, as if the Czech nation were Übermenschen and as if the whole planet should revolve around the public opinion in the Czech Republic.
No wonder the Czechs have a worse opinion of Slovaks, no wonder chauvinistic sentiments against Slovaks are strengthening after such a strong hateful disinformation campaign in the media against Slovakia.
Instead of that chauvinistic part of Czech journalists humbly reflecting on the fact that chauvinistic sentiments against Slovaks are caused by their hateful disinformation campaign, some Czech journalists, such as Luboš Palata, are even happy about the growing chauvinism against Slovaks. The article is written in a context as if he were happy about it.
Fanatic extremist Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová on the Czech Radio show. Serious violation of the law in Czech Radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6ioslSedg
On the one hand, it is fine that there is a person in Czech Radio who is critical of the Slovak government. The problem, however, is that the Czech Republic should find at least somewhat normal and at least somewhat sane critics of the current government, not a mentally unbalanced conspiracy theorist and fanatical extremist Kovačič Hanzelová, whom no one in Slovakia takes seriously anymore.
How about inviting a political scientist named Miroslav Řádek to the show? The Czech media do not seek out decent critics of the government.
Furthermore, Czech radio is seriously violating the law if it does not invite a representative of the Slovak government to the program/show who would refute the crazy lies and conspiracies of Kovačič and Hanzelová. One-sided propaganda, where there is no room for the other side to express itself, is propaganda like in socialism. Not only is it unethical, but it is also a serious violation of the law.
An adequate balance to Kovačič's disinformation of Hanzelová would be, for example, to invite analyst Eduard Chmelár to the show – although I also disagree with his pro-Russian views, he can evaluate other things quite objectively about the Slovak political scene.
Inviting Hanzelová to Kovačič's show is exactly the same extreme as if Slovak Radio invited the hardest right-wing extremist Jindřich Rajchl to inform Slovakia about Fiala's government and the situation in the Czech Republic.
You can see the credibility of Kovačič Hanzelová in this video . Kovačič Hanzelová should first take care of her mental health and only then criticize the Slovak government. A psychotic person
While Slovak Radio faithfully adheres to the law, on the contrary, for Czech Radio, the law is a scrap of paper that it does not follow:
Act No. 231/2001 Coll. Act on Radio and Television Broadcasting and on Amendments to Other Acts
§ 31
Program content
(2) The broadcasting operator shall provide objective and balanced information necessary for the free formation of opinions.
(3) The broadcasting operator is obliged to ensure that the principles of objectivity and balance are observed in news and political-publicist programmes and, in particular, that no political party or movement, or their views or the views of individual groups of the public, are unilaterally favoured in the overall broadcast programme, taking into account their real position in political and social life.
Aggressive attacks, mockery, and hoaxes by the Czech police spokesperson towards Slovakia. An undignified disgrace and shame. The arrest of a person who was calling in bomb threats at schools in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Hoaxes in the Czech media : some Czech media are spreading a malicious hoax that the Slovak police are deliberately concealing that Russians are behind the person who sent the threatening emails. What is the truth? The Minister and the police refused to comment on who was behind this person because the law does not allow it and it would be a serious violation of the law. It is not possible to talk about the results of the investigation while the investigation is only at the beginning. However, the media manipulated and distorted the information.
The Czech Republic is facing a crisis. The atmosphere in the Czech Republic is tense. Racist and chauvinistic sentiments against Slovaks have been fueled in recent years mainly by the Czech media and Czech politicians. This atmosphere apparently negatively influenced the spokesperson for the Czech police, who insulted the Slovak police. In addition, the spokesperson for the Czech police commented on the case much earlier than he had gathered information about the entire case, thus spreading several dangerous hoaxes that damage Slovak-Czech relations.
The Czech side apparently found it hard to bear and difficult to accept the primacy of the Slovak police, who were the first to comment on the case. However, nothing prevented the Czech police from commenting on the case at the same time.
The Czech police spokesman commented on the case before he had gathered information about it – he spread the hoax that the Slovak police had no authority to inform about the arrest. Later, however, it turned out that they did have the authority to inform. On the contrary, the Czech police and the head of the Czech secret service violated the law and prematurely disclosed the investigative version of the Russian trace without the consent of the investigator, which is an obstruction of justice. An ordinary layman may not realize the seriousness of such a violation of the law, but legally educated people realize the seriousness of such illegality on the part of the Czech side. The Czech secret service apparently does not employ a lawyer who would warn their boss about the violation of the law.
This is not the only BIS controversy. A friend of mine claimed that BIS allegedly puts up advertisements/posters with anti-Russian propaganda in public places in the Czech Republic. Nothing against it, the BIS's intention may be good, but the head of the BIS does not realize that this is a strict and very serious violation of the law on Abuse of Power by an Official (Criminal Code, § 329), which carries a sentence of several years in prison. The Czech Republic is a country of unlimited possibilities. BIS is strictly forbidden to exceed its powers. The head of the BIS must be a real idiot if he does not consult any lawyer about such a serious matter.
The international investigation team was established on the initiative and request of the Slovak side, so the Czech spokesman spread the hoax that Slovakia's share in the international investigation team was insignificant. The Czech spokesman spoke before he found out the information and did not refrain from insulting that the role of the Slovak police was just to make coffee .
The Czech Police President apologized by phone to the Slovak Police President for the insults of his spokesman. I consider such an apology insufficient . Public insults and a private apology. The Czech Police President is clearly very afraid of aggressive Czech chauvinistic anti-Slovak media and politicians to apologize publicly to the Slovak nation for the insults. He would receive a harsh dose of hate from the Czech media and politicians for apologizing.
Finally, it seems that the Czech police (or perhaps the Ministry of the Interior) decided to ask all Czech media to delete and censor the crazy statements of the Czech spokesman, because I could no longer find them anywhere, not even on CNN Prima News. It is legally questionable and somewhat reminiscent of the practices of dictatorial regimes if the police order the media what to write or not to write, but if the main intention of this order to the media was to smooth out and mend the disrupted diplomatic relations between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, then I see it as a good intention and I do not criticize it. If the intention was just to back out of this embarrassment and find a way to avoid an apology, then the Czech media should not have accepted such an illegal police order, they should have ignored the police's wish and informed freely.
This is not the first time that the Czech Ministry of the Interior has controversially interfered with media freedom. In the case of the mass murderer at the university, Minister Rakušan also dictated to the media at a press conference what they should and should not write regarding the fatal failure of the police, when the police had information about the planned attack hours in advance and yet did not act.
Comparison of Slovak and Czech ministers:
- Foreign Minister Lipavský is probably the biggest scandal of the Czech government. Absence of a second-level university degree, poor knowledge of English, zero previous experience in diplomacy, advocating Zionist ideology. The Slovak Foreign Minister has at least a slightly better profile, although it is not praiseworthy either. The Slovak minister has diplomatic experience as a former shadow foreign minister for Smer.
- Vít Rakušan, Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic. A historian and Germanist by education. He became famous for huge corruption scandals in the party. One of the biggest parodies of Czech politics. The Slovak minister is a lawyer by education, i.e. an expert. Slovakia probably only once did not have an expert in the position of Minister of the Interior, it was always mostly experts.
- Jana Černochová, Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic. No managerial or professional skills. One of the most incompetent ministers. The Slovak Minister of Defense is an extremely experienced and successful manager with perfect results. Experience in managing companies and entrepreneurship.
- Zbyněk Stanjura, Minister of Finance of the Czech Republic. An electrical engineer by education. No managerial skills. Slovak Minister Kamenický, an economist by education. I am not aware of a time in the history of the Ministry of Finance in Slovakia when there was no expert. In the Czech Republic, this is apparently possible.
- Marek Výborný, Minister of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. A theologian by education. No managerial or professional skills. The Ministry of Agriculture is one of the most difficult ministries to manage. The Slovak Minister Richard Takáč is one of the most successful ministers in history with good managerial skills and a university degree in agriculture. He has long been involved in politics, focusing on topics related to the Ministry of Agriculture.
- Martin Kupka, Minister of Transport of the Czech Republic. No managerial skills, no professional prerequisites. The Slovak Minister of Transport is an experienced manager with experience in managing companies and entrepreneurship. Managerial skills are very important in this ministry because it includes state railways and highway construction.
- Petr Hladík, Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic. A good manager, but with zero expertise. The predecessor of this minister also had zero professional and managerial skills. The Slovak Minister Taraba is a top manager, an entrepreneur, the most successful minister in history, and has been very successful in fighting corruption groups in the ministry. The Deputy Minister, Secretary, and Deputy Minister Filip Kuffa is a top expert on ecology with a perfect professional profile. The Minister and his deputy complement each other perfectly.
- Martin Baxa, Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic. He is not an expert. The Slovak minister has a slightly better professional profile because she worked as a moderator in the field of the Ministry of Culture. Despite various controversies or media hate and hysteria, she is still a more successful minister than Baxa, and she has managed to push through significantly more positive than negative things. Surprisingly, she managed to implement anti-corruption measures and stop corrupt subsidies.
- The Slovak and Czech ministers are in the same situation. While the Czech minister is a medical expert, the Slovak minister is a top manager.
- Minister of Justice Pavel Blažek. Both the Slovak and Czech ministers are lawyers and therefore experts. The Slovak minister, despite media political battles and hate, had no corruption scandals, unlike Blažek. On the contrary, he succeeded in a very successful fight against corruption in Šimečka's subsidies.
- The Czech and Slovak Ministers of Education. They have approximately the same profile. One is an expert, the other a manager.
- Minister for Regional Development. For most of the time, it was led by Ivan Bartoš, who had no experience with regional policy and no experience with regional issues. The Slovak Minister Raší is an experienced regional politician, and his deputy, Deputy Secretary Michal Kaliňák, is one of the most prominent experts on regions and regional policy in Slovakia.
- The only ministry that is better in the Czech Republic than in Slovakia is the Ministry of Economy or the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
- The Czech Minister of Social Affairs is not an expert in this field. The Slovak Minister is a former secretary of this ministry and has experience in this area.
So, with all due respect to the Czech nation, the Czechs must be really envious of our Slovak government. I honestly don't envy the Czechs their government.
However, if the PS party were to come to power, it is possible that the expertise of the Slovak government would be as deplorable as that of the current Czech government.
The course of the 2025 pre-election campaign, Czech parliamentary elections. The dirty game of the Czech media.
The course of the 2025 pre-election campaign, Czech parliamentary elections. The dirty game of the Czech media. I noticed that the Czech media have agreed on an interesting strategy to help the political parties that are part of Fiala's government. A few days after the pre-election campaign began, I noticed that the Czech media almost stopped reporting on domestic politics. Because if they reported on politics, Fiala's government would have nothing to be praised for and they would only have to criticize it. When the Czech media do report on politics, it is exclusively positive news about Fiala's government (for example, commenting on Zelensky's visit to Prague – it is possible that Zelensky wanted to get involved in the pre-election campaign in the Czech Republic in this way, similar to what he did in the USA). Shortly after the start of the pre-election campaign, we still had the opportunity to read very sharp criticism of Fiala's government on an almost daily basis, one scandal after another. It seems that this strategy is working very well for the Czech media. While Fiala's SPOLU is gaining strength in terms of preferences, the ANO party, on the other hand, is losing in preferences. People are an endlessly stupid and easily manipulated mass. People have an extremely short memory and have forgotten what Fiala did yesterday, how incompetent he is. This is not the first time that the Czech media have interfered unethically in the pre-election campaign. In the presidential elections, Andrej Babiš was almost labeled as Hitler and the media strongly promoted Petr Pavel. While Fiala's government had not a single success in domestic politics, the reason why a voter decides to vote for Fiala's SPOLU is success in international politics, such as the ammunition initiative for Ukraine, and cutting off Czech oil and gas. But what is the truth? The success of the Fiala government in international politics is also just one big media bubble and a hoax supported by the media. As I explained in previous articles, almost the entire Czech ammunition initiative is being implemented and outsourced in Slovakia through the Slovak company MSM and the Slovak Ministry of Defense. Petr Fiala, with the support of the media, very ugly lied that he cut the Czech Republic off from Russian oil and Russian gas. Even in terms of corruption, Fiala's government is no better than the ANO party. The corruption scandals of Dozimetr and its poor investigation, the corruption with Minister Blažek's apartments, Minister Blažek's contacts with a Russian oligarch close to Putin, and we don't even know how many corruption cases the media censored for Fiala's government so that he wouldn't look like a total idiot.
Slovak politics is more transparent than Czech politics. Greater openness to the media.
While the Czech media talks about Slovakia as if it has the worst government in the world, the reality is quite different. In another parameter, Slovakia and the Slovak government are better off than the Czech one, and that is the transparency and openness of discussion with the media and journalists. While if you type the name of a Slovak politician on YouTube, you will see dozens of press conferences that the media streams live.
In the case of Czech politicians, you will no longer find any press conferences. Czech journalists practically do not communicate with journalists, they have almost no press conferences where journalists could ask them questions. At most, Fiala sporadically does an interview with his affiliated media without critical questions.
And why risk unpleasant questions from journalists when Fiala's government is the least successful and most scandalous in the history of the Czech Republic.
While Prime Minister Fiala holds a press conference once a quarter, in Slovakia, Slovak politicians often hold press conferences on a daily basis.
Petr Fiala chauvinistically insults Slovakia in the pre-election campaign
We must not end up like Hungary and Slovakia. Now it's all or nothing!
Link to Fiala's Facebook , video.
Petr Fiala's pre-election campaign is based on hatred towards Slovakia.
Petr Fiala is the most incompetent and stupidest prime minister in the history of the Czech Republic. Fiala is the worst prime minister in the history of the Czech Republic.
In domestic politics, he has had nothing but affairs, scandals, and failures, which is why his campaign is based exclusively on foreign issues. I consider distracting attention from his own failures by pointing fingers at a foreign prime minister or comparing Babiš to Fico to be absurd and to be spreading hatred. Babiš is not a pro-Russian politician.
A positive example of Czech journalists who objected to the anti-Slovak chauvinism of Petr Fiala, who was caught lying.
What did he expect? Fiala boasted about how he had given it to Fico. But he didn't think through one crucial thing https://nazory.aktualne.cz/vyostrene-bratrstvi-opet-pokracuje-fiala-se-dostal-do-potyck/r~4f0ecaa8e54411efae9c0cc47ab5f122/
The shocking scandal of the Czech ammunition initiative has been revealed. The Czech government is taking credit for someone else's work. Slovakia is contributing more to the project than the Czech Republic.
Journalists are scoundrels. They manipulate public opinion and distract from essential things when they completely conceal Slovakia's participation in the ammunition initiative, although the information can be publicly found.
The Czech government is doing a huge PR for itself in a dishonest way. It is boasting with someone else's feathers. The Slovak participation in the initiative is so significant that it would be correct to rename it to the Slovak-Czech ammunition initiative. Only one Slovak company, MSM group, with a majority Czech owner and minority Slovak owners, is participating in the project. The majority owner is the Czech CSG | Czechoslovak Group . We do not need to mention the small Czech companies that are participating in the initiative and control some one percent of the Czech-Slovak market here.
And how do I know that only the Slovak company MSM group is involved in this, when the Czech media only mentioned CSG?
The official CSG website states that CSG is not directly involved in the ammunition initiative but does so through its subsidiaries. And only one Slovak subsidiary, MSM group, deals with ammunition. MSM group states on its website that the factory in the Slovak town of Nováky deals with the analysis, inspection, and maintenance of long-stored ammunition. All ammunition from the Czech initiative goes to Nováky, the Nováky ammunition depot of the Slovak Ministry of Defence, where MSM group analyzes, sorts, and removes defective ammunition and performs maintenance on it. CSG states on its official website that they also replace some components on the ammunition from the initiative, which may be, for example, a fuse, or it may be the replacement of some corroded packaging part. Only the Nováky production hall is equipped with such capabilities. From Nováky, the ammunition goes to Ukraine.
Even from publicly available information, one can learn an alarmingly large amount of information about these things. However, I do not want to disclose all sources of information, nor do I want to state where to look for them, so that this information is not misused by Russian agents and so that this warehouse does not end up like Vrbětice.
The MSM group also has its buildings and factories in the ammunition depot area. The ammunition depot is also connected by rail, so the transport capacity is large.
At one time, I considered taking a job with the Czech ammunition initiative, where I would seek out business partners abroad willing to sell old ammunition. That's also why I know more about it. No Czechs are working on it, but Slovaks are.
Isn't newly manufactured ammunition also part of the Czech ammunition initiative? If so, it would be a huge scandal in the hypocrisy of the Czech government.
The Czech government has neither confirmed nor denied this information. There is little information, and the Czech government is very non-transparent in this regard. I publicly call on Czech journalists to find out and for the Czech government not to conceal it. If, God forbid, the information that a significant part of the ammunition is newly manufactured were to be confirmed, it would be a huge scandal for the Czech government, because it would again be 100% manufactured in Slovakia by the MSM group, even with the strategic participation of the semi-state-owned company ZTS in the supply chain, which can no longer be separated from the Slovak government. On the one hand, the Czech government is totally distancing itself from the Slovak one, on the other hand, the entire ammunition initiative stands and falls with Slovakia and the Slovak government.
Why are the Czech and Slovak governments concealing the fact that the entire ammunition initiative is being implemented in Slovakia?
There are several reasons. While the Slovak government would anger its pro-Russian voters, the Czech government, on the other hand, would lose all its pro-Ukrainian voters. The ammunition initiative is the only success of the Czech government. By revealing that it is a project implemented in Slovakia, Petr Fiala and his government would come across as completely incompetent fools. Fiala's government is the least successful in the history of the Czech Republic, and its only success is the ammunition initiative. What preferences would Fiala and his government colleagues have then, if a scandal broke out that even the Czech ammunition initiative is not Czech but is being implemented in that bad, hated pro-Russian Slovakia? Their preferences would radically fall – no doubt.
If Fiala told the truth, his propaganda about a bad pro-Russian Slovakia that does not help Ukraine in any way would fall apart. Portraying Slovakia as more pro-Russian than it actually is helps Fiala in the polls.
Even the Czech journalists who lobby for Fiala certainly don't want to reveal it, because they know it would harm him.
Another reason for withholding this information is, understandably, security. The more the media talked about Nováky, the higher the probability that Russian agents would do the same as in Vrbětice. I hope that the Ministry of Defense has taken very strict security measures. In conclusion
The Czech government has gained enormous fame in the world and Ukrainian media thanks to the ammunition initiative. However, they are boasting with borrowed feathers and concealing Slovak participation in the project, without which nothing would have happened. Czech government politicians are cunning and malicious. This is really not ethical. It is also hypocritical that the Czech government looks down on the Slovak government, has suspended diplomatic contacts, even though Slovak participation in the initiative is very important. I feel hidden racism from the Czech government towards the Slovak nation. The Czech government itself knows very well that their ammunition initiative has little to do with the Czech Republic. Many Czech journalists also know this and conceal Slovak participation. Hidden racism is also felt from Czech journalists. The main thing is that Czech journalists bombard their readers with propaganda of only negative news about Slovakia.
While the Polish Minister of Defense praises Slovakia for being a global player in ammunition and in ammunition aid to Ukraine, the Czech media only talk about Fico's pro-Russian statements and other scandals.
On the other hand, to be objective, it is also convenient for Slovak politicians to conceal the Slovak participation because Slovak voters are very divided on this issue.
The economic magazine Forbes completely destroyed Fiala's government and Fiala's lies about gas.
Gas storage facilities are as empty as they were during the crisis. Despite government promises https://forbes.cz/zasobniky-jsou-stejne-prazdne-jako-v-energeticke-krizi-prislibum-vlady-navzdory/
Petr Fiala strikingly reminds me of Donald Trump. They both have a lot in common. They are both the same kind of populists. They are both the same kind of liars and narcissists. The basic working method of Fiala and Trump is lies. While Trump repeatedly repeats the debunked lie that the US poured 350 billion into Ukraine, Fiala constantly repeats lies about independence from Czech gas, although all relevant experts, such as economist Lukáš Kovanda, have sharply condemned these Fiala hoaxes because the opposite is true.
For blesk.cz, Fiala claimed that the Czech government had such a large amount of gas that they even offered it to Slovakia. Furthermore, Fiala boasted that the Czech Republic was incomparably better off with gas in all respects than Slovakia. However, Forbes magazine refuted these lies and, on the contrary, praised the Slovak government for having full, not empty, storage facilities, unlike the Czech Republic.
It's a great pity that honest journalists are in the minority and there are very few of them. The majority of the Czech population is still fed propaganda by most media outlets, which do not point out Fiala's hoaxes. People are being manipulated.
I would like to see those misguided idiots who will vote for Petr Fiala again in the next elections, when he has achieved nothing but lies and failures.
I am also very surprised by the Czech media, which are so obsessed with Slovakia, why they don't rather deal with the lies of Petr Fiala and these scandals of Fiala's government.
I would like to remind you that gas supplies are not just some marginal, insignificant parameter, but a strategically and existentially important matter. Gas pipelines do not have sufficient capacity to supply Europe during the winter. For this reason, storage facilities are filled in the summer and emptied in the winter.
Petr Fiala is on addictive drugs. However, the Czech media pays more attention to scandals in Slovak politics, with propagandistic hyperbolization.
Petr Fiala promised voters that they would have German salaries. Journalists asked him again if he was serious and if it was not a hyperbole. He answered and confirmed again that he meant it literally and deadly seriously. Of course, it is an unrealistic promise that cannot be fulfilled at all. This is as absurd as if Robert Fico said that he would send his own Slovak astronauts to the moon.
There are serious concerns about whether Petr Fiala is mentally well, whether he suffers from serious psychiatric diagnoses, whether he can handle his office at all, and whether he suffers from drug addiction.
Doctors probably prescribe him hard addictive drugs, benzodiazepines, for stress. This version was confirmed to me by people close to Czech politics, they say it is whispered among Czech MPs. And it may not be just a rumor, because I have this information directly from a close friend of a senator for the KDU-ČSL party. There must be something to it.
Petr Fiala suffers from drug addiction to benzodiazepines.
That part of the Czech journalists who write about Slovakia with such enormous hatred should rather deal with the problems in domestic politics. The Czech media distracts attention from the essential things.
Petr Fiala and Donald Trump have a lot in common. They are both the same populists, liars with strongman speeches and unrealistic promises. They are both similar madmen.
Why I think Slovakia has been doing better than the Czech Republic in recent months
While some Slovak media outlets are constantly running a political campaign against the current government, only half of the criticism is factual, and the other half consists of half-truths, propaganda, and hateful emotional outbursts.
On the contrary, in the Czech Republic, Fiala is a media darling, and yet over the past year, the media has addressed a lot of very factual criticism to him. All criticism of the government in the Czech media is factual and there is an incredible amount of it.
Based on this analysis, I conclude that the Slovak government has had fewer real scandals in recent months than the Czech one. However, we learn from the Czech media that Slovakia has the worst government in the world.
Pre-election campaign in the Czech Republic. Fiala portrays Babiš as a "Russian agent"
Fiala, like a true populist, tries to manipulate his voters with the fear that Babiš is a strongly pro-Russian politician. People are very easily manipulated by fear. We will see whether it works on the voters or not. Fiala's campaign is based on hatred.
If Slovak Radio were in as desperate a state as Czech Radio, the European Commission would have stopped Slovakia's EU funds a long time ago. Petr Fiala has no right to criticize Hungary.
Czech Radio is currently about as free as it was during the communist normalization.
It is an absolute bizarre and a world-wide unique situation that the head of Czech Radio and the head of the Czech Radio Council is a politician from the ruling party. In a democratic state, these people must always be apolitical nominees and independent experts.
Petr Fiala has no right to criticize Hungary until he sorts out the Czech Radio.
Czech Radio is full of racist propaganda and hoaxes against Slovakia, but you'll look for criticism of Fiala's government there like a needle in a haystack. Instead, Czech Radio is full of very aggressive hateful attacks on the opposition, for example, on the ANO party. Czech Radio is strikingly reminiscent of a public service medium that operates in a harsh dictatorial state.
Lying as the basic working method of Petr Fiala
While many Czech media outlets pay too much attention to Slovakia, they should rather focus on domestic scandals.
The basis of Petr Fiala's pre-election campaign is a lie.
Even after Russia's war against Ukraine, the Czech government continues to purchase Russian gas in similar quantities as before the war, and only one thing has changed: suppliers have been diversified, so that if Russian gas were to be cut off, the Czech Republic would not be left "dry" but would be supplied with much more expensive gas from other suppliers. According to Fiala's propaganda, under Babiš, dependence on Russian gas was 98%, under him it is 0%. A prime example of lies and propaganda.
Even the media, which strongly supports Fiala's government, has started to be outraged by Fiala, and that's saying something: " Let the chips fall where they may SPECIAL: Fiala manipulates numbers, Rakušan with charity. And how is it at the king's home?"
Pavel Blažek and his Bitcoin case. A bizarre method of money laundering is a despicable global rarity.
Although an absurd affair like the one that happened to Fiala's minister Blažek is a world record, the Czech media will still refer to Slovakia as a banana republic.
Fico's government has bigger problems with corruption than Robert Fico's government , yet the Czech media are diverting attention to events in Slovakia.
It is extremely bizarre in itself that the ministry accepted any financial donations from any private person, which would be controversial even if it was a regular bank transfer, let alone bitcoins. It is even more suspicious that the donation was of an extremely high amount. Furthermore, according to available information, Minister Blažek accepted such a suspicious gift from only one person, and that was the serious criminal Tomáš Jiřikovský himself.
Petr Fiala's reaction to this case was bizarre and needs no comment. According to Petr Fiala, everything was 100% fine and he even praised Blažek for being such a wonderful person. Such a statement is ripe for at least a psychological examination.
He wrote the following on the social network X : I appreciate Pavel Blažek's decision to resign as Minister of Justice. I am convinced that he acted in good faith in the case of the Bitcoin auction, and I appreciate his responsible step all the more. Pavel Blažek coincidentally decided to resign on the day when the Chamber of Deputies passed an amendment to the Criminal Code, which is appreciated by both the professional and lay public. Pavel Blažek has great merit in the modernization of the Czech justice system, of which the amendment to the Criminal Code is further proof.
Minister Blažek claims that he acted in good faith. But I don't believe that. Such a serious donation agreement cannot be made without a thorough background check of the person from whom the money was received, and certainly not in bitcoins, where the suspicion of money laundering is high.
It remains a mystery what motivation Minister Blažek and the serious criminal Tomáš Jiřikovský could have had to conclude a contract between themselves. I don't believe in any good intentions. The only version that makes sense is money laundering, and the minister himself received a generous bribe for it. I can't imagine anything else that would make any sense.
The Czech Ministry of Justice is the only ministry of justice in the world that directly laundered dirty money through cryptocurrencies based on an official contract with a criminal and also held a speculative auction aimed at exchanging bitcoins for crowns.
What could have been the motivation of Jiřikovský and Blažek? Every contract must be beneficial to both parties. Blažek received a generous bribe. The crypto exchanges probably froze Jiřikovský's bitcoins because they were informed that he was a criminal. Similarly, even if Jiřikovský had tried to convert the bitcoins into Czech crowns, the bank would have frozen the money anyway. The only way to unfreeze the bitcoins and the money was with the help of the ministry. However, it seems that not everything went according to plan when the affair reached the media.
The timing of this affair just before the elections is no coincidence. One way or another, Blažek's term is ending, so Blažek said to himself, "One way or another, I won't mess anything up, I have nothing to lose, my term is ending anyway, and I'll leave the ministry at least richer by a bribe."
The police already investigated Blažek for corruption in 2014. But Fiala did not learn from it. Ex-minister Blažek is reportedly being investigated for corruption in connection with the extradition of businessman Torubarov to Russia.
The Bitcoin case is one of the worst, most shocking corruption and criminal scandals in the history of Central Europe, at least in the last 100 years. The Czech Republic has fallen to the level of a banana republic. Such a shocking scandal is a disgrace for 100 years. Such a scandal would be too strong even for African countries.
The Minister of Finance, Zbyněk Stanjura, was also a significant accomplice in this crime. Petr Fiala did not dismiss Blažek, even though the opposition had been calling for it long before the Bitcoin case – Blažek had a very rich history of corruption and crime. The apartment case, and in 2014, the police investigated Blažek for accepting a bribe from Putin's criminal government, due to the unlawful extradition of a Russian businessman.
In a cultural and civilized country, it would be taken for granted that Fiala and Stanjura would also resign. But the Czech Republic is a banana republic, and these people have not yet resigned.
I feel enormous hypocrisy from the Czech media, which has not once called on Fiala and Stanjura to resign. If Babiš were in power, the media would certainly call for his resignation.
But people are an infinitely stupid and easily manipulated mass, and a large part of the population did not even notice these double standards of the media.
The ODS party was probably greatly damaged by the media – as a person who sees behind the scenes of media power games, I have a strong suspicion that the media censored a large number of corruption scandals involving the ODS party. I am afraid that the media kept a large part of the skeletons in the ODS party's closet to themselves. If you censor all corruption scandals of a politician just because you have a morbid fear of Babiš, you will greatly damage the politician and they will steal more and more. And with one, the appetite grows. Blažek probably relied on the media to censor this affair as well due to fear of Babiš, but he miscalculated, it didn't happen, it was already such an extreme that it was unsustainable and the bubble burst. We have similar problems in Slovakia, where the media strongly helps the PS party and censors all its corruption scandals. If the PS party came to power, I, as an experienced analyst, also estimate a similar scenario as with the ODS party and its bitcoin case.
Journalists are huge scoundrels and incredibly morally corrupting their favorite political parties, censoring all their corruption affairs, and this is happening in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The Czech Republic and Slovakia are contrasting countries. While in Slovakia the media can't find anything to criticize about the government, out of desperation they are creating huge propaganda around the "pensions" case, a case from 10 years ago, and corruption worth hundreds of thousands of euros. In contrast, in the Czech Republic there is a huge affair that would be too strong even for a country like Zimbabwe. On the other hand, Slovakia could very quickly fall to the level of the Czech Republic if the PS party came to power.
What impact will the bitcoin case have on the Czech elections? Media manipulation in the Czech Republic is enormous, journalists are doing everything they can to downplay the case as much as possible and are still working with the version that Blažek could have had good intentions, although nothing other than money laundering makes sense. We'll see, I'm curious myself. There is a tendency for many votes to shift from the SPOLU coalition to the ANO party.
What would happen if Andrej Babiš had the same case? The Czech media do not hide their double standards towards Fiala and Babiš. In Babiš's case, the media would unleash such hell that they would drive half a million people to demonstrate in Prague to overthrow Babiš. Babiš would certainly resign immediately under the pressure of the media and demonstrations. On the contrary, the media are helping Fiala with all their might.
Some might say that Minister Blažek acted foolishly in the Bitcoin case. I don't think so. It was a close call, and everything would have gone according to his plan. As I mentioned, Blažek was counting on the whole case not being publicized. If it weren't for one amazing investigative journalist named Zdislava Pokorná, it's very, very questionable whether another journalist would have been willing to publish it. Many journalists might argue they have a morbid fear of Babiš. From our experience in Slovakia, we have extensive experience with how media coverage of a case has an extremely strong impact on police work. Without media coverage, there's a high probability that the police wouldn't have dealt with the Bitcoin case at all, or if they had investigated it, they would have done so very poorly in favor of Blažek, without media attention. And without media coverage, it might have been possible to successfully bribe the police and Rakušan as well. It was not far at all from Minister Blažek leaving the ministry a billion richer from a bribe, and the criminal Jiřikovský would have been enjoying his billions in peace.
Comparison of corruption between Babiš and the Fiala government . I have thoroughly studied the Čapí hnízdo case. The media has never hidden its visceral hatred for Babiš. And so it was with the Čapí hnízdo case. Babiš did not steal any subsidies; his company simply did not meet all the conditions for the subsidy. More precisely, it is a matter of opinion or perspective whether Babiš's company met all the conditions for the eligibility of the subsidy. The subsidy was mediated by the Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic, which was never led by a politician from the ANO party, so a conflict of interest can be completely ruled out. If Babiš had not been a politician, no one would have dealt with it. Such a small case was certainly not worth the media writing thousands of articles about it. In contrast, we have the Dozimetr case and the Bitcoin case, which cannot even remotely compare to Čapí hnízdo.
I've looked at Ivo Lukačovič's disinformation website novinky.cz, how they report on the bitcoin case and try to divert attention from this case by giving space to the clown Tomáš Zdechovský as he was clowning in Slovakia or the internal political conflicts of the USA.
Bitcoin case update (16.7.2025)
I consider it a huge failure of the Czech media that they did not create enough pressure for Fiala's government to fall, or for Petr Fiala to at least resign as Prime Minister, and for all political actors in this affair, such as Zbyněk Stanjura and others, to resign from their positions.
I also consider it a huge failure of the Czech media, which could not even organize anti-government protests after such an affair, which would be too strong a coffee even for the most backward African country. I have very serious concerns about whether the Czech media today are freer than they were under socialism. If the media wanted to, what I describe in the lines above would have been fulfilled long ago.
In a cultural and civilized country, people like Fiala, Stanjura, and Blažek should have been excluded and expelled from the ODS party a long time ago.
Lukáš Kovanda: International disgrace for the Czech Republic: it is deliberately delaying the cut-off from Russian oil, writes Reuters
https://www.newstream.cz/trhy/mezinarodni-ostuda-pro-cesko-zamerne-oddaluje-odstrizeni-od-ruske-ropy-pise-reuters
A perfect article and a perfect analysis by the most famous Czech economist Lukáš Kovanda. It very clearly proves what a liar Petr Fiala is. While Petr Fiala and his colleagues claim that the Czech Republic is completely independent of Russian oil and gas, the opposite is true. The Czech Republic has paid Russia many times more for oil than the amount of aid to Ukraine.
The Czech Republic is certainly not a good example for Slovakia, and it certainly did not do more for its independence than Slovakia. Moreover, cutting off Russian oil is incomparably easier for the Czech Republic than for Slovakia because even before the war, Slovakia was sourcing almost 100% of its oil from Russia, while the Czech Republic was sourcing only one-third.
Czech journalists and Czech media, who are so extremely obsessed with criticizing Slovakia, should rather deal with their own domestic scandals, of which there are plenty.
It's a great pity that 90% of the media will not publish Kovanda's analysis. Czech voters will remain ignorant, they will never know what an idiot Fiala is and they will vote for that fool again. I am very surprised that the SPOLU party's preferences have not significantly declined. The media manipulates the stupid masses.
Petr Fiala has achieved nothing but failures, scandals and lies.
Lying is the basic method of Petr Fiala.
Slovakia is a global player in the production of ammunition, says the Polish Minister of Defense. He also praised Slovakia's defense aid to Ukraine.
https://www.ta3.com/clanok/968373/polsky-minister-obrany-sa-stretol-s-kalinakom-varsava-so-slovenskom-podpise-zmluvu-o-spolupraci-pri-vyrobe-municie
While we only hear scandals and negative news about Slovakia in the Czech media, the Polish minister sees it differently. It is not for nothing that analyst Alexander Duleba says that every fifth artillery shell for the defense of Ukraine is from Slovakia. The Polish minister confirms his words. It is also tragicomic that diplomatic relations between Poland and Slovakia are better than between the Czech Republic and Slovakia. I wonder why the Czech media do not criticize Fiala for this.
The Czech ammunition initiative is a nice gesture, but not as significant as Slovakia's achievements.
https://www.youtube.com/live/4WeDovuc4sM?si=rEE-UV0waUPQsZge
Slovak-Ukrainian diplomatic relations are better than Czech-Slovak. And Slovak-Ukrainian relations are better than Czech-Ukrainian.
Everything is exactly the opposite of what the media propaganda says.
While Fiala cancelled intergovernmental negotiations between Slovakia and the Czech Republic, there have already been two intergovernmental negotiations between Ukraine and Slovakia, once in Michalovce and the second time in Uzhhorod . A huge scandal, shame and disgrace for Fiala's government. While Fiala's government supports Ukraine only with words, Slovakia does so with actions. Ukraine obviously appreciates this more. The entire Czech ammunition initiative is being implemented by the Slovak Ministry of Defence and the Slovak company MSM group.
Fiala had an intergovernmental meeting with the Ukrainian government only at the very end of his term and only once .
The Dozimeter Case
The role of the media is to manipulate. The media image is that only Babiš steals, only Fico steals, that stealing only happens in Slovakia, and everyone else is anti-corruption, but the opposite is true.
Less monitored Czech media are talking about great doubts as to whether the Dozimetr case was properly investigated and whether the police dealt with all its actors.
There are serious doubts as to whether the police have free and unhindered hands, whether politicians like Vít Rakušan interfere in the work of the police.
Shocking secret of the Dozimeter case: five dead, fear in the courts and encrypted phones of the powerful! https://prosvet.cz/sokujici-tajemstvi-kauzy-dozimetr-pet-mrtvych-strach-na-soudech-a-sifrovane-telefony-mocnych/