Truth and love are the words that begin the famous statement of Václav Havel. He was a reference for a new vision of society, where truth and love triumph over lies and hatred. This vision became the leitmotif on the way to freedom and democracy in the Czech Republic and Slovakia at the beginning of the 1990s.
After 30 years, this vision is still present, as proof of the constant battle between good and evil, a ying-yang on our common path, already in the European Union. And it is also relevant today in the whole of Europe, whose democratic foundation is being tested by expressions that deny and attack love and truth.
And the readers of this message perceive in this daily struggle to the past the receding intensity of this message, sometimes strengthening again, reminded. Sometimes focused, sometimes out of focus, in the time between the past and today and in the imaginary context of the new challenges of democracy's fight against non-love and non-truth.
SM, 2022