May Day
A greengrocer in Gustav Husak’s “normalized” Prague refuses to place in the window of the state-owned shop the poster with the slogan “Workers of all countries, unite!” He couldn’t care less about the unity of the world proletariat. Those words don’t mean anything to him. They are hollow, empty, meaningless.
The moment he disobeys, he signals the end of conformity and the rebirth of autonomy. This means the self-empowerment of the powerless. It is a promise and a pledge, a defiance and a declaration: I am not afraid any more, I will will not acquiesce in the perpetuation of the Big Lie. I want to live in truth!