According to the server, one of the main communist ideologues, Jan Fojtík, died on September 8 last year. “He already had major health problems, he didn’t communicate much. It’s over, he died last year,” Blesk Skála told the server. KSČM spokesman Roman Roun added to ČTK that they learned about the death from the media. “Because he was not a member of the KSČM and the family did not inform, we learned about the death from the media. We are sorry,” he said.
Fojtík graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Charles University, from 1951 to 1968 he worked as an editor in Rudé Práv. In 1969, he was the editor-in-chief of the party magazine Nová mysl. In the same year, he briefly held the position of rector of the Political Center of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic. His party career peaked after the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia during normalization.
After 1969, he held the position of chief party ideologist, who was responsible for managing promotion, culture, science and the media. For the entire period from November 1969 to November 1989, he was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic. From November 1982 to April 1988, he also held the post of a candidate for the presidency of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic, and from April 1988 to November 1989 he was a member of the presidency.
In January 2021, the Office for the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism launched a criminal prosecution against Fojtík for the abuse of authority of an official, which he was supposed to have committed as a leading party ideologue, secretary and member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic by leaving in effect the state border protection regime in which it was possible to use a firearm against intruders. This led to the death or injury of several people.
In the past, police officers from the Office of Documentation and Investigation of Communist Crimes tried to bring other representatives of the communist regime to justice for crimes on the Czechoslovak border. But no one has been tried yet. During the prosecution, former Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Miloš Jakeš and former Minister of the Interior and Prime Minister Lubomír Štrougal died, another former Minister of the Interior Vratislav Vajnar died as a defendant. In the case of Fojtík, the prosecution was stopped due to dementia, in the case of the other Minister of the Interior, František Kincl, due to mental illness.
KSČ ideologue Fojtík suffers from dementia, according to experts he is unable to understand criminal proceedings
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