THE EMERGENCE OF SKINHEADS IN THE CSSR

Radek Rákos

doi:10.25142/spp.2018.010

Abstract

The first remarkable signs of the skinhead subculture, according to the current literature, date back to 1985, but the first signs of skinhead can be traced between 1983 and 1984. The anti-communist mood in society and growing community intolerance towards the gypsy population have paved the way for far-right thinking. This was further stimulated by the infiltration of news from foreign medias, which considered ultra-right action to be a sensation, and because of this marketing step, the population was so supplied with hot news. The relationship between the punk movement and the skinhead subculture is basically that skinheads are merging from punk movement because of the influence of so-called Oi movement or by the imagination of foreign media, such as the 100+1 magazine of foreign interests. The right-wing skins experienced its own Renaissance when the Orlik music group emerged, which, however, evaded from neo-Nazism promoted abroad and built its values on patriotism and racism, although some of those texts attracted a number of those fans. With the collapse of the communist regime and the opening of the information flow, several subcultures began to be profiled by yet unavailable information.

Highlights

The first remarkable signs of the skinhead subculture, according to the current literature, date back to 1985, but the first signs of skinhead can be traced between 1983 and 1984
The reaction to these events was the terrorist invasion controlled by the neo-fascist organization socalled neo-Nazi skinheads, which have severed themselves from traditional skinheads and their ideology has begun to turn to right-wing extremism
Considering that the band A 64 (Operating since 1983) had been able to work on the song since 1983, there is a chance that the skinhead subculture has been known to us since 1983–1984

Summary

Introduction

The first remarkable signs of the skinhead subculture, according to the current literature, date back to 1985, but the first signs of skinhead can be traced between 1983 and 1984. Considering that the band A 64 (Operating since 1983) had been able to work on the song since 1983, there is a chance that the skinhead subculture has been known to us since 1983–1984. “It is just the opportunity to implement and justify violence against gypsies and foreign students or workers (from Cuba, Vietnam and other third-world left-wing countries) and at the same time to express anti-regime attitudes has tempted the first individuals to create Czech skinheads.”

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