1. apríla 2008 15:29:42 CEST
Dear jessykapower
Thanx for the compliments. I can asure You that I have a better job then working for the OWK! But as I wrote I spent once several months within the walls of the OWK - therefore I still have contacts to some OWK-Ladies and also some male staff of the office. That's how I keep updated. I don't have to defend the OWK. I only want people to make up their own decision by seeing this unique place once with their own eyes. Only when you have been there once you can really speak about this place. All other "eye-whitness rumors" are just rubbish. I deeply do dislike this. OWK is not perfect at all - but it is still about the best place of this kind on Earth.
Sometimes especially US citizens have such strange ideas of countries which have once been comunistic. Once a slave was scared to visit the OWK because he read in a US newspaper that there is war in Europe - the Bosnian war... It's difficult to deal with such ignorant idiots.
It was interesting to read what points of view regarding communism you brought up to discussion. I don't want to comment the communistic period as I didn't experience it by my very own. I grew up in western Europe.
But my impression is that the secret of the communistic regimes was that they all just lived on other's costs: they expropriated the rich ones, they took the labour-power from many, many persons (prisoners forced to work, and everyone knows how easy it was to get sent to a prison-labour-camp) and they didn't take care of the nature at all. All this regimes just survived for such a long time grace to the treasures they were able to plunder. They lived from the substance, no sustainability at all. Once the state was ruined, the nature rotten and the the expropriated treasures wasted the systems just imploded. The winds of change were blowing in 1989... And now, western states have to rebuild this stats, provide them with new substance. Just have a look at Germany. They always sent money to the GDR but after the reunion the had to spend more then a trillion of Euros to "repair" the eastern part of Germany.
One of the few good things about communism was that rally most of the children had equal chances to attend schools etc.
You ask my about the future of the OWK.
Well, I have now magic crystal-ball.
I just think that during the last 10 years OWK proved that it is able to make some changes and that it can adapt to some changes. Meanwhile it is one of the leading firms on online-services for BDSM related products - special focus on femdom. The castle serves more or less as film-studio, weekend-home for the Queen and as event-location. They are always optimizing the fix-costs and they try to cut down the costs in general. OWK is even a bit more efficient then it used to be 10 years ago.
That OWK will get in troubles with the Czech Republic is nonsens as it isn't illegal what they are doing. As long as they pay the taxes and don't commit any crime there won't be any problem. I guess, OWK is one of the most important tax-payers in Cerna (for the real estate) as well as in Zlin. Not to forget that they offer in the minimum 20 jobs. Meanwhile even the neighbourhood has no problem with the OWK anymore as they just recognized that the (a bit strange) persons there are no communists, no nazis, no followers of a destructive sect or so. And they can make business with the OWK - even in Cerna. So I don't think it will be closed down for some bad reasons like a bankruptcy or for some legal issues. Maybe they will once sell the place. That is possible because I don't know how the future will be when the Queen will retire...