What a nonsense mwestwood wrote : language is Czech or Slovak, in this case it's Czech. Correctly "Kral majalesu", "The King of the rag day". As this mainly student celebration used to be organized in May, in Slavic languages Maj, the event derives its name from this period of the year.
It's true that the Communist authorities were more than annoyed by the fact that Ginsberg was chosen by the students to be the King of their event. His anticapitalist and antiwar opinions were welcome to the Communists, but Ginsberg critisized their system, too. The last drop that caused his expulsion was, as far as I recall, advocacy of his sexual preferences - homo and bi. The Communist moral was in this respect very outmoded. In some respects not far from that of the Holy Church.
Ginsberg visited in Prague the poetic wine tavern where Jirka (George) Ostermann used to organize readings of poetry. Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti, Yevtushenko, .... I met Ginsberg there and served him a guide visiting Old Prague and especially the Jewish Quarter 44 years ago .....
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