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Zuzana Hájková, who works in the media in Uherské Hradiště region, together with the second contributor, who is a literary scientist doc. Libor Martinek from the University of Silesia in Opava, did not concentrate solely on mapping the Brno samizdat by Milan Jelínek, but this publishing phenomenon tries to put into the wider contemporary social, cultural and political contexts. In the introductory chapters, they deal with the term samizdat itself and the history of its use and distribution, the image of the Czech samizdat, its tendencies and its development periods, with a view to Brno's cultural and political context, selected samizdat periodicals, samizdat edition and their focus. Part of the contribution is also the life story of Milan Jelínek, who de facto tells about the vagaries of the totalitarian regime, which for political reasons was liquidated by many experts, which also affected Milan Jelínek. Linguist, dissident and samizdat disseminator prof. Milan Jelínek appears to the authors of the contribution as a person of solid moral principles, personally very brave and dedicated.