PhDr. Jiří Dvořák

"When the collective was so-called hopped under the communists, don't worry, yeah - hopped equals cemented - yeah, to increase cohesion, so when these people drink together they're closer, right. So I'd never got drunk, which made them suspicious, yeah, and when the political jokes started coming out, I was like, 'I've got to go to the toilet,' so everybody was like, 'Well, he's scared, so he doesn't have to hear it,' but if I didn't hear anything, I couldn't say anything to anybody, yeah, and I was off the hook. So even State Security didn't show any interest in me, which was important, right, and the comrades found out that I only lived with my parents, I didn't go to pubs, so they couldn't exploit me or use me in any way, right."

"That was the first and last time I practiced as part of the spartakiad, yeah, as a student we had to practice. And it was raining just before we got in there. But a terrible downpour. So just as we got in, it stopped, so we were sheltered in those umbrellas, right, so we didn't get too wet. But we were supposed to sit there, in that muddy - clay surface, on that Sokol Island, yeah, if you can imagine. So the upshot was - my father said, 'You were the only one there doing the foal, everybody was chattering away, only you asserted your own as usual and didn't do what you should have done.'"