Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1950, i aukatihia ana akoranga i te wa i peia ai ia me te kaituhi a Jan Trefulka mai i te Rōpū Kaunihera mo nga "mahi anti-rōpū". I whakaahuatia e Trefulka te kaupapa i roto i tana pukapuka "Pršelo jim štěstí" ("Happiness Rained on Them", 1962). I whakamahia hoki e Kundera te peia hei whakaaweawe mo te kaupapa matua o tana pukapuka "Žert" ("The Joke", 1967). Whai muri i te tohu a Kundera i te tau 1952, ka tohua ia e te Wānanga Kiriata hei kaiwhakaako mo nga tuhinga a te ao. I te tau 1956 i whakaaetia a Kundera ki te Pāti engari i peia ia mo te wa tuarua i te tau 1970. I te taha o etahi atu kaituhi reformist communist penei i a Pavel Kohout, i uru atu ia ki te Spring Prague 1968. Ko tēnei wā poto o ngā mahi whakarerekētanga i tukitukia e te
Ko te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Czechoslovakia i Akuhata 1968. I noho tonu a Kundera ki te whakahou i te communism Czechoslovak, a ka tohe kaha ki te tuhi me te kaituhi Czech a Václav Havel, e kii ana, ko te mea nui, me noho marie te katoa, me "kaore tetahi e herea mo ona whakaaro", me "te hiranga o te ngahuru o Prague ka nui ake i te o te Spring Prague". Heoi, i te mutunga, ka whakarerea e Kundera ana moemoea whakarereke ka neke ki Parani i te tau 1975. I whakaako ia mo etahi tau i te Whare Wananga o Rennes. I whakakahoretia ia i te tangata whenua o Czechoslovak i te tau 1979; he tangata whenua French ia mai i te tau 1981.