Jan Urban: We Build Statues of Supposed Heroes Just so We Don't Have to Talk About the Truth

The call by the authors associated with the book Czech Troubles 1945–1948 and friendly historians to place an explanatory plaque next to the statue of President Edvard Beneš on Loretánské Square in Prague attracted a lot of attention, but, in a Czech way, nothing that could be considered a discussion. The Honorable Edvard Beneš Society, which reacted somewhat angrily as the first to do so, was unable to answer even one of the factual questions w…