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2008•31 minutMilan Kundera's denunciationMilan Kundera has always carefully covered his tracks
He has given no interviews for the past quarter of a century
He visits his native country only incognito and stays in hotels under assumed names
so not even they are willing to speak to journalists about who Milan Kundera is and was
A murky and convoluted story has now accidentally surfaced from the past of the best known Czech writer
It indicates that there may be other reasons for his reclusiveness than we previously imagined
Milan Kundera has always carefully covered his tracks
He has given no interviews for the past quarter of a century
A murky and convoluted story has now accidentally surfaced from the past of the best known Czech writer
Two years have just elapsed since the Communist putsch
For over six months now Milada Horáková has been held in Ruzyně prison
and subjected to interrogations and torture
Her trial is due to take place in a month‘s time and in three months’ time she will be executed together with her co-defendants
In various police stations in Prague the first interrogations of ten world-champion ice-hockey players
arrested yesterday evening for “public incitement against the the Republic” are already under way
They will be convicted of high treason and sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment
some of it spent in the uranium mines near Jáchymov
Over ten thousand people are already interned in the camps there
It was on 14 March 1950 that the paths of two young men
The former escaped a death sentence only by a whisker and spent many years in prisons and labour camps
The latter was soon to become a rising star of “constructive” (i.e
who then gradually emerged as one of the key Czech intellectuals of the 1960s and a world-renowned author
For fifty-eight long years Milan Kundera was probably the only actor in the drama of those days who who knew what actually happened at the “Kolonka” student hall of residence  in the Letná district of Prague
It was not until the spring of this year that a typewritten official document unexpectedly fell out of the archives of the Communist security agencies and shed light on the long-forgotten incident
But let us take things in the proper order
Miroslav Dvořáček was born in 1928 at  Kostelec nad Orlicí
While at gymnasium (secondary school) he made friends with Miroslav Juppa
who had transferred to the school in Kostelec when the gymnasium at nearby Rychnov was closed by the occupation authorities
The two young men were to share the same ambition – to become airmen
The Czechs’ wartime humiliation combined with the heroism of Czech pilots flying with the RAF caused their juvenile yearning to become a firm determination
After leaving school they were both gained entrance to the Air Force Academy at Hradec Králové
“I can remember how happy they were to be accepted
They had set their hearts on going there,” recalls their common friend Iva Militká
Miroslav Dvořáček she had known since childhood
Juppa she had fallen in love with when they were both at school and had started to go out together
”Sometimes he’d fly over our house and wave to me with with the plane’s wings,” the now 79-year-old lady recounts
The two young men’s happiness was to be short-lived
After the Communist putsch in February 1948 a purge of the armed forces was carried out and the air force was particularly affected
Forty percent of the officers were former members of the British RAF
The pilots were demoted as unreliable and enemies of socialism
dismissed from the forces and sent to labour camps
Students didn’t escape the effects of the purges either
The class that Juppa and Dvořáček attended was disbanded
weapons and permission to fly,” Iva Militká recalls and the dry officialese of the documents preserved in the archives bear out her statement
“The named students of the Air Force Academy must be immediately expelled from Academy not only in view of their negative attitude to the democratic system of our state but also of their open opposition to the state and the Party,” reads the HQ memorandum dated 20 January 1949 relating to the purges carried out in Year III of the Academy to which both friends belonged
the young men received orders to transfer to the infantry regiment in Plzeň and they left the barracks
They did not report to the infantry regiment
Realising there was no way out of their situation and that their future was uncertain
the two had already decided to flee to the West and join the air force there
They stopped off at their homes to pick up civilian clothes and then went to Prague where they were hidden for several days by some relatives of Iva Militká’s
“I paid them several visits and took them food
They told me they were due to be smuggled across the frontier in several days’ time
At the time I was still planning to join them abroad,” she recalls
The two men then bought a map and a compass in Prague and crossed unnoticed into the western zone of Germany through the thick Bohemian Forest
At the same time and in the same country Milan Kundera’s life was taking a totally different course
in the family of the well-known musicologist
By the time he was attending secondary school
he was already outstripping his peers in terms of erudition
He shared the prevailing enthusiasm for the idea of socialism and admiration for Stalin’s Soviet Union
“For the generation that grew up around the time of the war it was very hard not to fall prey to that illusion,”  Kundera’s fellow-writer Ivan Klíma explains
Klíma experienced the youthful infatuation with Communism at first hand
but unlike Kundera he is prepared to reflect on it: “We grew up cut off from information
Even in the years from 1945 to 1948 no one dared to write the truth about Stalin although people were already aware of his crimes
For the young left-wing intellectuals of those days
Stalin was the one who ended the war and socialism represented hope of a better world.”
Milan Kundera joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) and penned poetry and song texts in the spirit of the socialist ardour of those days
“Our friendship arcs across the sky like a rainbow
The Soviet Union and our country will be together for ever and ever
Our friendship towers over us like a rocky peak above the waves
The warmongers will crack their skulls against that rock,” run the words of one of the songs for which Kundera supplied the words
but the poet’s friends from that period  all concur that in left-wing cultural circles of the forties and fifties
the talented Brno intellectual was one of the more critical devotees of Stalinism
The erudite aesthete loathed mass shenanigans and he apparently did not even attend May Day parades
He tried to provide a rational explanation for his attitude to Communism
“Milan was a totally different type of person from me,” the writer Pavel Kohout recalls
In the fifties Kohout was a prominent Stalinist propagandist
although he subsequently became a founder of Charter 77 and a dissident
“He was a very withdrawn and pernickety person
but that doesn’t mean he didn’t truly believe in the ideas of socialism
It simply that everyone expressed themselves differently.“
In 1948 Kundera moved from Brno to Prague and enrolled at the film academy to study direction
“I’ve sat on many admissions boards in my time but only twice in my life did it happen that a candidate walked in and it was immediately obvious that he stood head and shoulders above the rest,” recalls the director Antonín Kachlík
then an active member of the Party and head of the student council
breadth of outlook and conceptual thinking – that is something one rarely came across.” The young Communist intellectual soon made a name for himself in the film faculty and the Prague cafés
At that time Iva Militká was also enjoying her carefree student days beneath the red banner
had disappeared abroad with his friend Dvořáček
and she had enrolled at Charles University to study German and Scandinavian languages
“A new world opened up to me in Prague,” she recalls
“I was given accommodation at the “Kolonka” hall of residence
I had a little single room with a cherry tree outside the window that used to blossom
I spent the happiest days of my life there.“
Militká came to the university after the main wave of Bolshevik purges
during which a quarter of all the students and a thousands of teachers had been expelled
and life at the student residences was like an idyll of “socialist construction”
The young student soon fell prey to the infectious ideology too (but she never joined the party)
“I expect these days no one would understand,” she says
in an effort to describe the atmosphere at “Kolonka”
taking a walk on Petřín Hill with a fellow student
We stopped and chatted and he dreamed about how Czechoslovakia would one day become one of the union republics of the USSR”
a student of aesthetics and a fervent young Communist by the name of Miroslav Dlask would become part of her idyll
They got to know each other at a student work camp in Ostrava and were soon going out together
and the young student enthusiastically held forth to his new love about how humanism would emerge victorious only through the unity of social democracy and Communism
Dlask also introduced his new girlfriend to his like-minded friends
One of his closest friends was a student at the film academy
the charismatic intellectual Milan Kundera
Iva Militká decided at that time that she would no longer be emigrating to join her one-time boyfriend Juppa
The Leopold Barracks refugee camp in Munich was far removed from that Prague student idyll
The international network of refugee camps then used the space of former concentration camps and barracks
The conditions prevailing there were dreadful
The Czech emigrés who left after the Communist putsch of February 1948 suffered harassment at the hands of the expelled Sudeten Germans
and the intelligence services of the Communist and western countries vied with each other in luring refugees to work as secret agents 
Miroslav Dvořáček and Miroslav Juppa had no doubts about which side they wanted to work for
They underwent interrogation by the US army Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC)
in the course of which they described the Hradec Králové barracks
including the number of aircraft and personnel
they were invited to an unassuming villa not far from the refugee camp at Ulm
war hero and legendary head of military intelligence
who offered them work for “the American-supported Czechoslovak intelligence services”
They were to work as couriers and carry out missions in Czechoslovakia that would help restore democracy
The young pilots accepted on condition that General Moravec would subsequently see they were reinstated in the air force
They underwent special training and a few days after Christmas in 1949
they were smuggled back home through the Bohemian Forest on their first mission
Dvořáček was to contact a certain chemical engineer by the name of Václavík
a high-ranking employee of the Chemapol company
and recruit him to supply information about the chemical industry
When Dvořáček arrived in Prague he became convinced that he was being tailed
He started changing from one tram to another in order to shake off any possible pursuers
His feeling of being followed was so strong he decided it better to go back
Dvořáček set out for Czechoslovakia on 13 March of the following year accompanied by a clandestine guide
they crossed the snow-covered frontier and made their way to a hamlet called “U Vítků” near the village of Pocínovice
where they given shelter by the Touš family
In those days he was twenty-one years old and used to assist his father
 assignments and mission didn’t interest us
Our job was to provide him with a his safe haven and somewhere to sleep
During the period of forced collectivisation following the Communist putsch
the village was riven with dissension and a bitter class struggle got under way
with the Toušes unequivocally adopting a stance in favour of freedom
They offered a safe haven for dozens of people
and refugees fleeing to Germany from the Communists
Miroslav Dvořáček spent the night at the farm but continued on his journey the next day
When he reached Prague he tried to carry out his original assignment and make contact with Václavík
After spending several hours trying to locate him
he looked out of the tram window at Mánes Bridge and caught sight of Iva Militká
his childhood companion and his best friend’s former girlfriend
He quickly jumped off the tram to say hello to her
I can’t remember how he explained his presence in Prague
I was naïve in those days and I didn’t give it much thought
I asked Miroslav how Juppa was and then he walked me back to the  hall of residence
He asked me if he could leave his case there for a couple of hours
He told me he had some things to sort out in Prague and he’d come back for it in the afternoon,” Iva Militká relates
Dvořáček then went off in search of Václavík
He tried an address in the Vinohrady district where the chemist was supposed to be living according to his instructions from Germany
he set off for the Chemapol building and waited outside to see if he could identify him among the crowd of employees
on the basis of the description he had been supplied with
So he decided to postpone his search until the following day and went back to the student residence
where he had agreed with Iva he would spend the night
He entered “Kolonka” at around eight o’clock in the evening
two armed policemen were waiting behind the door for him
resident at the student hall of residence on George VI Avenue in Prague VII
presented himself at this department and reported that a student
that she had met a certain acquaintance of hers
The said Dvořáček apparently left 1 case in her care
saying he would come to fetch it in the afternoon
(…) Dvořáček had apparently deserted from military service and since the spring of the previous year had possibly been in Germany
entered under the reference number 624/1950
enables us to reconstruct what actually caused Miroslav Dvořáček to end up in Communist prison camps
After offering her visitor accommodation in her room
Iva Militká went off for lunch with her friend Dlask
She mentioned the unexpected visit to him (Dlask was aware that the two had emigrated) and she requested Dlask not to visit her that evening as Miroslav would probably be spending the night there
Dlask told the news to his friend Milan Kundera
who went off to the local police station to report it
Iva Militká relates what happened to her: “When I got back to the student residence I was approached by two men who took me into the room next door
They told me that the person who was supposed to be coming to me was going to be arrested and I was not to try to warn him
Had I known beforehand I would have waited somewhere else and warned him.” She has never forgotten the scene she witnessed from the other room and it often comes back to her in dreams and nightmares
The unsuspecting friend arrived at “Kolonka” and was immediately taken away under police escort
She has never seen Miroslav Dvořáček since
“I still feel guilty about having talked about him
“I went to Kostelec to see my parents and told them I had caused Miroslav’s arrest
My father then paid a visit to his parents and told them
The feeling I had to live with afterwards was dreadful.”
Before we describe the outcome of Kundera’s deed
it is necessary to ask what actually led him to do it
What motive did he have for denouncing someone unknown to him
At a time when the pages of the Communist Party’s daily Rudé právo was crammed to overflowing with propagandist articles about settling scores with the class enemy
the informer could not fail to be aware what sort of fate awaited Dvořáček
an article had appeared in the main Communist newspaper about two young Czech employees of the US embassy
who had been sentenced to eighteen and fifteen years’ hard labour
The answer to the question why Kundera did it
Kundera was indeed a convinced Communist and so it is possible he decided to destroy a human life for purely ideological reasons
But according to the testimony of all his acquaintances who are prepared to talk about him
he was a fairly critical Communist by the standards of the time
and far from happy with everything that was happening in society; he was definitely not one of those who was baying for blood
“He was a reserved sort of person and had no liking for stupid mass rallies,” the writer Milan Uhde says of his friend
“I tended to think of him as a someone with courage who wasn’t afraid to express inconvenient opinions.” When asked whether he expressed hatred of the “class enemy”
his friends of those days answer in the negative – Kundera was more a positive builder of socialism than a hunter of opponents
“It was others like Skála and Pilař who went in for frenzied attacks on the ‘kulaks’ and justification of the trials,” Ivan Klíma explains
It is possible that Dlask was jealous of his girlfriend’s (and future wife’s) anti-communist visitor and asked his friend Kundera to help get rid of him
That would then beg the question why Dlask did not denounce Dvořáček himself
up to their deaths Militká’s parents always suspected him
She herself was unable to imagine that her future husband might have been capable of such a thing
Whenever she asked him directly what had really happened
The only thing he admitted before his death in the 1990s was that he had mentioned their conversation to Kundera
A third possible motive is to do with an incident that occurred just prior to the tragedy at “Kolonka”
It was to be the inspiration for the author’s first novel “The Joke”
Kundera had been sent a letter by his friend Jaroslav Dewetter criticising a highly-placed Communist official
both letters were intercepted and read by the secret police
and the young party members found themselves in a pickle
They both underwent disciplinary proceedings
as also did their common friend Jan Trefulka
The eventual sanctions were fairly unequal: Trefulka and Dewetter were expelled from the Party and the university (one of them receiving his call-up papers
the other being forced to earn his living as a tractor driver)
while Milan Kundera was simply expelled from the Party
He was allowed to remain at the film academy
where he pursued a fairly successful academic career  in the fifties and sixties
Was the denunciation intended to atone for his offence against the Party
but for the past quarter of a century he has refused to communicate with the public or journalists
No answer was received to a fax sent to his flat in Paris asking for clarification of the events of those days
What can be reconstructed fairly accurately from the archive and eyewitness accounts
The regime reserved the harshest penalties for couriers who had the courage to take part in anti-communist resistance
the State Security arrested about 500 couriers - “pedestrian agents” in secret-police parlance
Sentences generally ranged from twelve years to life
says historian Prokop Tomek of the Military History Institute
Miroslav Dvořáček went through the usual mill of interrogations that were intended to probe further information our of him by all available means
The archives also talk about “in-depth interrogations” at the prison at Hradčany
Military counter-intelligence had inherited a former Gestapo torture chamber dubbed “the Cottage”
where political opponents were interrogated using methods similar to their predecessors’
in-depth interrogations at the Hradčany prison could consist of almost anything from slaps to torture using sophisticated equipment
Interrogation records preserved in the archives of the security agencies are  compelling evidence of Dvořáček’s efforts to shield the people who had helped him
Although he believed that Iva Militká had betrayed him
he never mentioned how she and her parents had helped him escape
From the time of his arrest until mid-April
he also managed to stay silent about having stayed at the Toušes’ homestead
It was not until 15 April that he first described the actual place where he had crossed the border and the hamlet ”U Vítků”
it is not apparent from the archive material whether the interrogators managed to break down Dvořáček or whether they pieced together information gained meanwhile from the Toušes and other members of their group arrested four days earlier
the StB had managed to place an informer into the group of courageous frontier guides
Miroslav Dvořáček was convicted of desertion
The state prosecutor called for a death sentence
he was given a sentence of 22 years’ hard labour
forfeiture of all his property and loss of civic rights for ten years
and other members of their group were also convicted
“It was a show trial that lasted three days and it was even broadcast by the local radio station,” Josef Touš recalls
they chiefly found me guilty of failing to report it when I knew about it.” As the youngest member of the group
he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment; the others received sentences of twice that length and one of the guides was even executed
Miroslav Dvořáček was transferred to the Vojna prison camp near Příbram
one of the worst places in the Communists’ system of repression
After examination on arrival he was given the number A0–3016
Underwear and the towel were changed twice a month
The overgarments were worn until they fell apart
the inmates received only one set of clothes.
The prisoners had nothing to change into after returning dirty and often wet from work in the uranium mines
Life in the camp was exhausting and humiliating
Dvořáček was involved in the so-called “noodles affair” - a famed hunger strike and work stoppage that erupted because of the prisoners’ years of dissatisfaction
the prisoners refused to eat the wormy and cold noodles that they were served up several days in a row
The camp authorities had the entire area surrounded by a commando force armed with machine guns
tobacco and sugar was thrown out of the huts into the mud
It took the camp guards four days to break the hunger strike and work stoppage
Miroslav Dvořáček’s record contains a whole number of instances of his offences against the camp regulations – 16 April 1956: five days correction and ten days solitary confinement without exercise for writing “inciting” slogans on the fourth level of Vojna II mine; 21 May 1956: three days solitary confinement for reading an English detective novel Design for Murder; 9 June  1956 – five days correction for studying English words
It should be added that the  correction block consisted of small
The one-time courier did not even benefit from the amnesty of 1960
when a large number of the political prisoners were released
Common criminals were now in the majority and the former solidarity among prisoners was gone
so that conditions in the camps worsened considerably
Miroslav Dvořáček spent three further years there
He left the camp at the end of 1963 after almost fourteen years’ incarceration
The counters of bookshops were then displaying a new collection of short stories that was then being hotly discussed by the entire Czech cultural scene: Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
A0–3016 was labouring in the uranium mines in his ragged prison garb
the person who had denounced him was forging a respectable career for himself
Having started out as an almost unknown student
zealous for the construction of better tomorrows
He had published two collections of lyrical verse that was was of a somewhat higher standard than the norm of those days
so he was regarded as an audacious reformer by the generation of young Communists
He became a popular lecturer at the film academy and a member of the leadership of the Writers’ Union
“He returned at that time from a visit to the Soviet Union and I asked him what he’d brought back with him,” Kundera’s friend Milan Uhde recalls
“He replied: I’ve smuggled out a deep suspicion that the October Revolution was possibly the greatest crime of the 20th century.” Like a large number of people of his generation
Kundera subsequently turned away from Bolshevism
and in the 1960s he became a prominent reform-minded intellectual
His speech at the Writers’ Congress in 1967 and his polemic with Václav Havel entitled the Czech Destiny have entered the history text-books and readers as fundamental attempts to interpret the history of this country
Milan Kundera stayed silent about his murky past and no one else (apart
from Miroslav Dlask) possessed the key to it
who had married Dlask at a difficult moment of her life
never managed to rid herself of a sense of guilt
and her husband never furnished her with an explanation
Miroslav Dvořáček believed that it was she who had caused his imprisonment
A fortnight after the Soviet-led invasion of 21 August 1968
he didn’t hang around but emigrated to the West
the earlier denunciation probably escaped the attention of the secret police
who had him in their sights at the beginning of the “normalisation” period as one of the key reformists
The StB did everything in their power to break his nerve
but they never tried to blackmail him on the basis of those events of twenty years earlier
Knowledge of the past throws new light on an author’s work
Kundera was always at pains to prevent interpreters linking his life with his writing
lives with his wife at the home of his parents-in-law
Jiří has to cope with the dilemma of whether to help his former lover and thereby place his family at risk
Eventually he does shelter her but they are discovered by the caretaker who intends to denounce them
Jiří kills the would-be informer… We can only speculate at what might have been the inspiration for the play
but several elements in the story tally in a remarkable fashion with the events of 1950
After emigrating to France from Czechoslovakia
Kundera’s efforts to his conceal his own life story became almost an obsession
the writer stopped according interviews and refused to comment in any way on his past life
He wrote that the only important thing were his novels; these had an independent existence and were on no account to be associated with the person of the author
he has only paid secret visits to his former homeland
He has asked a few of his old friends not to say anything to the press
but we have an agreement that I won’t do while he is still alive,” explains Kundera’s old friend
“Milan is a trifle eccentric but I intend to respect his wishes.” Others react in a similar fashion
such as the writer  Jan Trefulka or Kundera’s cousin Ludvík
They are very few who are ready to reminisce
Is this covering of his tracks the natural need of a world-famous writer
or does it conceal an effort to hide an inconvenient past
The only person who holds the key to the truth now is Kundera himself
Uncovering secret informers and collaborators with the former regime has become a popular activity in the media in the recent period
This story had a somewhat different genesis
I have been collecting the reminiscences of important eyewitnesses to events in modern Czech history
I initially recorded their narratives for the civic association Post Bellum
and at the beginning of this year I received an proposal to record them for the newly-established Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
but also with slight trepidation at the thought of the tragic destinies I would once again encounter
The archives here offer valuable material for seeking out eyewitnesses and provide scholar with an unprecedented tool for reviving memories
I received from my cousin Matěj some fragmentary information about the story of one of my female relatives
The story was over fifty years old and featured love
Iva Militká has never ceased to be burdened by that event of over half a century ago that fundamentally affected her life
I commissioned a search for material about the individual actors and studied the material obtained in my spare time
A fairly commonplace story from the early fifties
which was given a little spice because of a family connection
when I came upon the report describing the arrest of Miroslav Dvořáček
It was in that report that there appeared a name that placed the incident in a completely different light
None of the surviving actors suspected that Milan Kundera was involved in their destinies in such a fundamental way
Iva Militká agreed to recount her life story
I then decided to seek out the other people and assemble a mosaic of the fates of the different actors and their motivations
Essential for my investigations was locating the main victim of the denunciation
who has lived in Sweden since the mid-1970s
finding him was to prove much easier than persuading him to talk about it
Initially he was willing to co-operate but then he suddenly had second thoughts
He had never spoken to even his closest relatives about his escape
his work for General Moravec or his imprisonment
“I always wanted to know the story of Dad’s escape and his time in prison
I respected his wishes,” says Dvořáček’s son Patrik
Miroslav Dvořáček had a stroke and he is still recovering from its effects
He continues to live under the presumption that he was betrayed by Iva Militká
Another direct participant in the story was Miroslav Dlask
who failed to react to my request for an interview
Thus it is still a mystery what exactly happened that day and why he decided to go to the police and denounce someone who was a total stranger
The burden of what has been concealed for 58 years is not a light one
Dvořáček very nearly received the death sentence which the state prosecutor had demanded for him
I pondered for a long time on whether I had a moral right to publish the story
But in the end I decided that its publication could throw light on some unanswered questions
as well as promote the recognition of courageous people like Miroslav Dvořáček
and enhance the discussion about post-war developments in Czechoslovakia
ADAM HRADILEKThe author works in the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes
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