Ing. Jan Moravec

“It went so far that they gave me an application form and I filled it out but I was hesitant about what to write there – there was one interesting question: What is your opinion on religion? I simply wrote what I felt, which is that all people have always believed that there is something greater than just to run through this world for a little while, so why should it be otherwise in this regard? One believes that there is simply something greater than just to walk through this world and die, and after death comes a much greater time than just the period that one spends here. I thus summarized it in this way and I submitted my application and everything was all right. Then, about a month later, there was a big fuss; they called me and asked me if I knew what I had done to them and whether this question that they had asked me in the questionnaire applied to me. I answered that of course it did. They were terrified; the party chairman nearly got kicked out for that and from then on they left me in peace. I believe that God perhaps did somehow help me in this.”

“The family of my father-in-law were farmers and they lost everything – although some of it – some living and non-living inventory – was later returned to them, their lives have been ruined because my father-in-law got fired from his job. They did not imprison him, but they sent him to work in a foundry where the poor man, a farmer who loved horses and animals, had to cast lead and what not. He would say: ‘I wanted to throw myself into that hot iron.’ So much miserable he was.”