Jára Cimrman has the answer: "When Cimrman contemplated Czech history, he pointed out an interesting phenomenon. Major European events often begin in the Czech

Jára Cimrman has the answer: "When Cimrman contemplated Czech history, he pointed out an interesting phenomenon. Major European events often begin in the Czech Republic, specifically in Prague, and usually through a so-called defenestration. The first Prague defenestration ignited the revolutionary storm of the Hussites and thus the whole European Reformation. The second defenestration in the 17th century plunged our continent into the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War. As is typical for Cimrman, he subjected the term defenestration to thorough examination. In his work Die Fensterpolitik he writes: Defenestration is generally understood as throwing one or more people out of a room through the window. However, this is not accurate. Not every act of throwing out of a window is defenestration. If it happens, for example, during a marital dispute or in the final phase of a dance party, then it is not a defenestration in the true sense of the word. The people being thrown through the window must hold some significant public function. He also asked the question, why did our ancestors prefer to get rid of uncomfortable actors through the window rather than the door? According to him, the old experience, succinctly expressed in the proverb: "if you throw him out of the door, he will return through the window", probably had an effect. By the reverse process, namely defenestration, the danger of returning to function is minimized." (CIMRMAN, Jára; SMOLJAK, Ladislav; SVĚRÁK, Zdeněk. Hry a semináře : úplné vydání. Praha a Litomyšl: Ladislav Horáček – Paseka, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7432-036-1. S. 368. Dále jen Hry a semináře.)