![]() For the next 23 years, as the longest-running Czech fanzine publisher, Fuchs tried to convey the same enthusiasm to his readers. Be it from activism to playing in a band, working as a Roma community lawyer, to publishing a hardcore-punk fanzine called Hluboká orba (Deep tillage). From then on, such determination was present in everything he did. It was here that he realised that determination and diligence can change the course of things. The experience from Velká Pardubická also lit a spark in then seventeen-year-old Filip Fuchs. It was this particular group that felt the experience as a bitter awakening after the Velvet Revolution, which had been based on dialogue, understanding, and peacefulness (that´s what the “Velvet” part meant). It was the first time since November 1989 that police beat young people so brutally: students, ecologist, sociologists, anarchists, and a significant part of the then-emerging hardcore-punk scene. It was also a very significant change for those who ran onto the racetrack on that day in 1992. The following year, only one horse finished the race, a large sponsor left, and subsequently the track was modified to lessen the danger for animals. "Anarchists got what they asked for", said newspaper headlines, but the goal was accomplished: attention was brought to the most dangerous steeplechase in Europe. What followed were chases, arrests, and more beatings. ![]() They held on to one another in a human chain link until the police started to spray tear gas in their eyes and beat them with batons, all the while being applauded by race spectators from the grandstand. About a 100 young people age 15 to 30 ran onto the Velká Pardubická steeplechase track to interrupt the legendary race. Everything was preceded by months of preparation, but in the heat of things, the signal was given by someone other than planned.
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