Daniel Kvasnička

"That's not said, those are the things you feel and I think we felt and perceived very well that the situation was very exposed. But of course we weren't alone in that. I don't consider myself a hero, that's just how it was. However, when I sense a fear system somewhere today... You know, it's true, today you recognize a person with impure intentions very quickly, because the memories come back. So, I consider the fear and pressure system the most monstrous today."

"I enlisted in Chomutov. They had a problem with it, because they were convinced that if I graduated from a graphic arts school, I would be a fantastic political commissar. On the first day, when we were standing there half-naked, they casually asked me, like everyone else then, if I believed in the Lord God. I answered them that of course I believed. And I still remember the horror of the political commissar who told me that I was supposed to be a cinema and radio mechanic. So, he sent me to Stod to the other parish priests. But that's when he let it slip. I then knew that the boys would help me figure out what I could and couldn't do and how I should behave. Of course, they tested me, took my Bible, I defended myself, and so on. I consider it such a miracle of heaven that I survived the military service, then that I became even more confident in what I want to do. And then I consider the military service a miracle because, a girl, whom I was allowed to marry after the military service, supported me already then."

"Very early on I understood that the profession of a photographer or cameraman was strongly linked at that time to the promotion of the party, the government and its policies. And I became disillusioned very quickly. That was what I didn't want to do."