Declaration by the Czech Children, a civic initiative, which – in opposition to the communist regime, and its interpretation of history, politics and culture – proclaimed the restoration of the Czech Kingdom in the spring of 1988 and called for anti-government demonstrations.

Although loyal supporters of the kingdom, we dedicate today’s March for the Monarchy to the defence of the democratic Czech Republic!

The kingdom is not merely a form of government for us, but also – or above all – a space and a set of shared values that our ancestors built into its foundations. The Czech state was founded in the 10th century as part of Western Latin Europe, which in the Middle Ages established a unique system of two powers, secular and spiritual, which not only divided power but also desacralized it, establishing a plurality of power and ideas. It posited the dignity of each individual human born in the image of God as opposed to the sacred community. This was the foundation for the idea of human and international rights, which are enjoyed by all people, by all nations, tribes, and communities equally, without distinction, whether they are fat or thin, big or small.

Although this universality of God was limited in modern times by monarchical absolutism and the Jacobin concept of democracy, which was reinforced by nationalism in the 19th century, when the monarchy was replaced by a republic in 1918, Masaryk’s state adopted and further developed the above-mentioned values on which the Czech Crown was founded. The kingdom – values passed down through generations – was eventually destroyed by brown and red totalitarianism. The Nazis and Bolsheviks stripped us of our thousand-year-old Czech history and culture, which has had a detrimental effect on Czech society and continues to restrain it to this day.

In the last elections, forces entered the government that want to tear us away from the Europe where we originated a thousand years ago, just as they did after September 1938 and May 1945. This is happening in a situation where we are on the threshold of geopolitical changes, when the entire international order is being questioned. This is extremely perilous, especially for medium-sized and small nations. In a world where everything is in flux and what was true yesterday is no longer true today, we may see a return to a situation where the fate of individual nations is once again decided by the great powers – a situation that led to the outbreak of World War I and all the evil that followed.

To form a government with extremists, to downplay extremism and legitimize it politically, to align the Czech Republic with the emissaries of Russian imperialism in Central Europe — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán — is suicidal at a time when the independent existence of Eastern and Central Europe, and indeed Europe as a whole, is once again at stake, and for which a war is being waged. This could very soon lead to a situation where the democratic world ceases to count on us, leaving the Czech lands caught between Germany and Russia, and paving the way for imperial post-Soviet Russia to regain its influence in Central Europe, as it did after 1945.

As supporters of the Czech Crown – the Czech Kingdom, which, for a millennium was an organic part of Western Latin civilization –  we stand by the democratic Czech Republic in opposition to political extremism, which, in the spirit with the fascist Kremlin, wants to break up the European Union.

At this critical moment, we call on democratic politicians and civil society as a whole not to bury their heads in the sand of petty domestic politics, but to take responsibility for the fate of this country – for the fate of Europe, which is our home.

Prague, 10 January 2026