STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 558, sig. 109-4/305 Page 38 · 38 of 15
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 558, sig. 109-4/305
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87, whose leadership could change at any time into an unfavourable course for the CSR, and sacrifice the state to Germany. Moreover, I think that this would have happened. We would, without that, be inferior to the latent ............., visible to the initiates, but invisible to the small Czech people for whom I have driven 20 years of politics. In September I was able to choose between two ways. I was not fully aware that I could step into Parliament, where on that beautiful Thursday there were many tithe sands of people who were willing to do anything, that with the help of the soldiers who remained loyal to me I could arm the whole population to fight and destroy the internal opposition, which has been systematically preparing the ground since January. But I was taught by the example of Spain and therefore did not want the Czechs to bleed to death in an inappropriate struggle against a terrible overpower.' I was expecting to become an outlaw again in my life, this was clear to me from the moment I realized how far the path from Bergmund to Marx was. If I were only a professor of sociology, I could have taken him with much less consideration. However, I couldn't do it because the social structure allowed the assumption that I could achieve a real economic democracy on the path of development. Finally, I couldn't do it for the reason that I didn't want to be a despot instead of a debate. Allow me to tell you with all my responsibility that I have changed my views to some extent. I have not made Spain out of CSR, although I was convinced that the Czech people would be like Spain in their heroism. Do not think that I surrender. No. Until the last day and breath, be I wherever, I work as a politician and leader of a certain part of the Czechoslovak people, who gave me the credit. It will be difficult times when everything will be at stake, but I will be