Open AccessPrague Spring’s Demise: The Involuntary Emigration of the Journalist Vladimír Tosek
Author(s) -
Daniela Spenser
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
korpus 21
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2683-2682
pISSN - 2683-2674
DOI - 10.22136/korpus2120218
Subject(s) - emigration , demise , politics , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , political science , spring (device) , law , media studies , economic history , sociology , history , engineering , philosophy , mechanical engineering , linguistics , algorithm , computer science
The television journalist Vladimír Tosek broadcasted the occupation until the transmission was discovered, and he was forced to cross the border to Austria. He did not want to emigrate, but the radical political change, which culminated in April 1969, forced him to exile. The Czechoslovak authorities made him pay a heavy price for daring to defy the occupiers in 1968 by making public his previous collaboration with the state secret police. In doing so, the government sought to discredit Tosek and his colleagues in the mass media who identified with and defended vigorously the reform process.