SOURCE: "Today in Trans Propaganda" by Rod Dreher; March 23, 2018, 12:05 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Benda
https://www.city-journal.org/article/standing-up-to-tyranny
https://www.cal-catholic.com/archbishop-chaput-remember-vaclav-benda/
KEYWORD: truth, education, resistance, culture,
"I repeat here the story I heard from one of the adult children of Václav Benda, the late Czech anticommunist dissident. He said that growing up in Prague under communism, every single day their father and mother explained to them what truth was, versus what they heard at school and in the state-controlled media. Every single day.
If you aren’t doing this with your children, start."
Václav Benda (August 8, 1946, Prague – June 2, 1999) was a Czech Roman Catholic activist and intellectual, and mathematician. Under Communist rule in Czechoslovakia, Benda and his wife were rare in that they were devout Roman Catholics among the leadership of the anti-communist dissident organization Charter 77. After the Velvet Revolution, Benda became the head of an organization charged with investigating the former Czechoslovakian secret police and their many informants.
The ideas expressed in Benda's iconic essay, A Parallel Polis, influenced the thought of other dissidents like Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa.
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