Mánička
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Mánička is a Czech term used for men with long hair, in Czechoslovakia through the 1960s and 1970s. Long hair for males during this time was considered an expression of rebellious political and social
Screenshot from an episode of the propagandistic TV series Thirty Cases of Major Zeman, showing "máničky" as a harmful, criminal and drug-using social class
The Plastic People of the Universe, veterans of the Czech cultural underground scene. Their performances were regularly visited by the long-haired "máničky" in the 1960s and 1970s.
Husák's Children
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Husák's Children is a term commonly used for a generation of people born in Czechoslovakia during the baby boom which started in the early 1970s, during the period of "normalization". The generation w
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…Czechoslovakia: former Czech President Václav Havel, the poet Ivan Martin Jirous, the musician Milan Hlavsa and the politician Alexandr Vondra among others. Husák's Children Prague underground…
Gustáv Husák (center) on a visit to East Germany, 1971