Jana Froňková

"By 1970 or 1971, checks had already begun. They consisted of each member having to re-apply to the party. I didn't apply. And who didn't, they invited him on the rug and tried find out why he didn't do it. My parents didn't even interfere at the time, but I managed to back away from it in such a way that I said I was terribly confused in the situation and now I don't know much about it, and that's why I didn't do it. So I wasn't expelled, but deleted, which was the milder form, even though I had it in the background profile, too. So I was deleted, my emigrant sister, my parents were expelled, so it was decided that they would expel me as well. They let me work as an administrative force, but they offered me a job in a new data center. "

"There were careerists who were able to irritate their colleagues by taking over their customers or trying to choose better destinations with some tricks. Then there were normal working people, and if someone had a different political opinion but was an expert, they used working cadre specialists. There were also people without a high school in the foreign trade company, they were pulled out of the workshops and they had, for example, merit for war. The two deputies had neither education nor knew any languages. Then there were the functions of suppliers that they gave to the union clerk, but he still had to do it for them, because they were there more to watch over him. They were people who had contact with foreign customers, so the guarding was quite sharp, and as soon as someone let slip some of their opinions, they were informed on it and were eliminated either from the company or from the position. So there were a lot of people in those positions and they were mainly the cadre specialists."