English Translation

At least it is significant for a certain insight, even of the nationalist hot spirits, that they no longer put the former so famous "Western democracies" into their account, but see and represent the decision "Reich or Bolshevism" quite clearly. But now they say: "If Bolshevism comes, then a certain neck shooting will be used, and there may be about half a million to be reckoned with. But that doesn't make up so much for more than seven million Czechs, our nationality at least remains. Sooner or later, however, all seven million will perish in the flood of pangermanism." And sighing, some good Czechs will reach where the back of the collar button will push him, and this heroic insight will bend. But this heroic slogan, which has not yet been tested in its seriousness, is not correct in any way. In the midst of the Germanic flood and under the unabated cry for help of the Czech spokesmen, the Czechs have become more and more numerous in all decades of their oppression. On the other hand, no mistake is more profound than that, in Bolshevism, the good mother of nationalities, especially of all Slavs. Already the old Pan-Slavism looked in reality differently than they wanted to see him in Prague with the transfigured look towards the east; it was only to do with the realm of orthodoxy, and on the other hand the Orthodoxy was only the title of a manic chauvinism, which already at an early stage became associated with all-humanity and found in Dostoyevsky's word its classical marking and also exposure: "Since the all-man is the Russian national idea, all men must first become Russian!" Lenin and Stalin also took this horse into their stables. And the consequence? In Prague and the surrounding area, is the story of that Ukrainian leader who was a fervent nationalist and at the same time a convinced follower of Bolshevism, and who committed suicide when he had to live the incessant deception of Bolschevism in the body of his own people? Such traces are frightening, and one should keep in mind again and again that even the Czechs would wait for nothing other than the scattering into all winds, with the small number of seven million this time certainly not a historic advantage. We can only understand such misguided ways of thinking if we bear in mind that after decades of excessive nationalist drive the Czechs have been a state people for twenty years - at the expense of other peoples! - and have not only prospered their nationaism, but have unfortunately been able to grow quite morbidly. Now they have returned to the ground of a rougher action, but it is also a soil of health and durability. One may appreciate that not every Czech within a very short period of time, historically speaking, is an enthusiastic follow-up.