Miloš Kubíček

"At that time, I was in the in elementary army service, and in a month, we were supposed to finish and go home. And suddenly there was the misfortune. In the army, it was handled differently, it was really dangerous there. The officers talked about the situation gradually turning into a war; yet it eventually died down. For a month and a half, we wondered if we were going to go home at all, what would happen to us. One didn't really feel like eating when looking at Russian tanks all around."

"Once I had a problem with our foreman when I was at the heating plant. I came from the operations department. He was, as I would say, a very crazy communist. He put up various posters, the guys were sitting there and eating in the workshop. I came and him said: 'Come help me!' – 'Jirka, what are you talking about, what kind of bullshit are you hanging up here, will anyone believe it?' He blushed and I knew I hit the nail on the head. And he: 'What do you mean? You don't believe it? Do you know how many times that's happened? You're out of premiums!' And the director added: 'Kubíčeks, that's the two of them!'"