Jaromír Kerhart

"I don't think it was as critical as it was then under the Communists. Because we did it ourselves, you didn't know, where you can come across someone, who sympathises with the regime and who would denounce you, if something suspicious was happening. So if I can skip a part of the narrative, we experienced it at home, when StB, it was in fact a communist Gestapo, came. Only due to such pettiness! My uncle had a book I think written in French or German. From a Russian who escaped from the Soviet Union and wrote about the situation in the Soviet Union. And this book got to Czechoslovakia, my uncle knew German, so he had it and read it. He talked about it in his family and his brother-in-law borrowed it, that he would read it because he came from Liberec, he also knew German, so he read it and returned it to him. But he liked to go for a beer and in Liberec, he talked about it, about this book, to the men drinking with hem. They had secret police everywhere in the pub, so it went wrong and they raided our house and they were looking for the book. And they really turned the apartment upside down. "