Glossary of Terms
Anti-Charter [Anticharta]
Various documents circulated by the Czechoslovak government in 1977 denouncing the Charter 77 signatories as demagogic and anti-socialist enemies of the state. The campaign against Chartists was started off on January 12 in the newspaper Rudé právo, and on January 28 a gala evening was held at the National Theater where officially approved artists and performers signed a petition in support of the communist government. Czechoslovak citizens were often pressured to sign anti-charters as a precondition of employment or other privileges.