Zdeněk Koryčanský

"I selected some people. A Few Sentences was a text that you could not have anything against. I went to see mainly the heads of the departments. I did not want to give it to my subordinates to sign so that I was not accused of misusing my power. So, the heads of the department, then the technical deputy signed it and the wife of the party chairman signed it as well because she recognised that it was well written. Well, of course, there were problems concerning it. Then, there was another phase when the boss was scolded by the Regional Committee of the Communist Party and he had to ease it somehow. So he called us and we were supposed to take it back. To save ourselves. Some took it back but only two or three people. The rest did not take it back. So they played a trick - a meeting of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement (ROH) where everyone signed and after it, they added a text saying we were condemning the declaration A Few Sentences.”

“The way it worked in Tesla company was that it was surrounded by a fence, barbed wire, and there was a guard tower on every corner, a gatekeeper so that somebody would not steal the secret that we were 20 or more years behind Europe in. You had to work six hours there, everyone had to clock in and clock out. You had to subscribe to Rudé právo (The Red Right). But on the other hand, one did not have to do anything. We worked there because we enjoyed it, you did not have to work much in Tesla. Otherwise, Tesla was a well-organized company. They had high-quality facilities for employees, services, and cafeterias. It had high standards compared to others.”