Miroslav Klepáček

"There was a cordon of police and now they were pushing us away. They always said about the demonstrations on TV: 'These are the bastards, the criminals.' So I went to the demonstration in a suit. I told Přemysl Rut: 'We should all come in a suit to show that it is a dignified and representative opposition.' He says, 'That would be very interesting.' I found myself against a cordon of police, I had a camera in my bag, and I thought that now we would be beaten and poured here. I say, 'Not like this.' I stepped against the cordon like this with that bag, in a suit, and I said, 'Gentlemen, will you excuse me?' And I walked behind their backs. I had no choice. I didn't want to be beaten or smashed or picked up because I had something filmed there. Suddenly I began to pretend to be a tourist. It was a little cowardly, but I took advantage of the moment of surprise. "

"Thanks to the Protestants, I met Milan Badal, who was later the Dominican and Secretary of Dominik Duka. He introduced me to the Brno environment because he worked in the state scientific library. I was interested in books and we started talking about what can be read, what cannot be read, what is available. As a bookbinding expert, I also tried printing - I said, 'If we can't read books freely, we'll start publishing freely.' It started in 1983 when I wasn't even twenty. I began to work systematically, to bind their library of the Dominicans. Milan secretly joined the order. It was more and more that we were meeting different people who were doing something. Whether we learned about Augustin Navrátil or through Milan Badal, I met Professor Stanislav Krátký, who was a secretly ordained bishop. At that time he was in Hrádek near Znojmo and all possible people went to see him, from Jiří Grygar to František Halas, who was later the ambassador to the Vatican. The personalities we met were already completely refined and unique. It was binding and formative for us to do something on our own. "