Vojtěch Kunčík

"On the first of January 1956, I was transferred to Gottwaldov. But because it was before the military service and there was no accommodation in the car while driving, I slept in an office adjacent to the studio. So, as I boasted, I was at Mr. Zeman's disposal twenty-four hours a day, because I slept there. In the morning, the aunts from Kudlov, the cleaners, came and snapped at [me]: 'Kunčík, get up.' So I threw the blanket back, and went to the cafeteria for breakfast."

"Because in the fifties, they were gradually nationalizing, nationalizing, but what do you do with a tradesman? In Brod, the armoury burned down, and they found out that the Kunčíks had a brand new planing machine, and my father borrowed money for it, for the planing machine. So the militia came, a truck arrived, and the nice planer was taken to the Brod armoury without replacement. So I've had it ever since maybe it was when I went to that school. And since I mentioned the school... it was supposed to be called a higher vocational school, there were so-called action committees in every village. Well, some comrades there - how is it possible that Kunčík's boy is in a selective school? Thanks to the headmaster at that time, his name was Edvard Vítek, who said, instead of being happy that the boy got into a selective school in Prague, where a couple of hundred pupils applied, you do this."