Bohuslav Douša

"I did sports, I was in Pioneer and in the youth union. I became very involved in sports. I played handball, I played hockey, the second league for the Ústí chemist, I got involved in the ski team. When I was 25, I wrote a letter that I was finishing [in the youth union]. There were efforts to get me into the party, which I refused. I remember it was a Mr Marek, the chairman of a local cell, who caught me in a chemical plant and said, 'Comrade Douša, how did you decide? Should we count on you? ' I say that if they give me a triple salary, I'll be there tomorrow. That's what my dad told me - have financial requirements, they'll see you're on the money, so they'll let you go. And I have to be grateful to Dad for giving me such advice. I have never been involved in politics. "

"Good afternoon, my name is Douša Bohuslav. I was born on October 4, 1942 in Pelhřimov, where we lived until the end of the war. After transferring my father to Prague and the birth of my sister, we lived in Ústí nad Labem from 1947. I went to school there, studied industrial engineering, where I lived until 1968 when the Warsaw Pact Troops invaded Czechoslovakia. I got together with my girlfriend and emigrated to Germany so that I could be close to my parents if something was to go wrong. I emigrated in good faith, believing it is not for a long time, but a purely temporary affair, only a few months or a year, after the invasion of troops.... but the opposite was true. It's been over twenty years. "