STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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120 2 zinxxigy bureaucracy. Perhaps nowhere in the world there was so much civil service as in the former republic. The whole public life at that time was bureaucratized. Guilt on everything that harmed the nation was borne by the political parties. These, especially the great Marxists, agrarians, etc., had leased directly the republic, as was often said at the time. Political parties, which made the whole public life only immoral and corrupt, also carried these abuses away into the Aemter. We know, what then reigns in us for infamous conditions. We do not need to go once and for all to exemplify evidence of our claim. It is still in good, but infamous memory, as it was in Moravian Ostrava, when the red comrades ruled here. For example, in the Hathause. Their black broad-sleeved hats and waving ties were everywhere, where a warm place or a sinekure could be felt. It was not seen what kind of qualification such a matador had and which was his cha-racter, if he had only a big mouth and a cheeky forehead. Many people in Ostrava remember today with horrors of the times, where e.g. on the apartment office those prevailed. To them at that time did not come at once like the pashas ! We could further list how things went under the rule of the political parties, but it is not necessary, because those abuses are still in frigcher memory. 1SOG Elsewhere the conditions were not better. The unhealing influence of political farties lay on our gent life like a black cloud. The "extremely Bureaucracy remained and the old cadre joined new thousands of officials from the Sudeten and Slovakia after the October events. This was intolerable in the long run and therefore this question should now also be discussed.