I did not expect we would live in “normalization regime” for 21 years
Péter Hunčík was born on 25th May 1951 in Šahy. He moved to Great Britain after 1968 and returned to Czechoslovakia to study medicine. In 1985 he was arrested in front of the OV KSS (the District Committee of the Communist Party of Slovakia) for “defamation of the bust of Gábor Steiner” and he could receive attestation from Psychiatry only after the Velvet Revolution 1989. He is one of the founding members of the Independent Hungarian Initiative and was its speaker from the beginning. From autumn 1990 until the elections in 1992 he was the advisor for minorities for the president Vaclav Havel. He works as a psychiatrist and publicist.