Jiří Pošepný

“If you wanted a car back then you had to... people were standing in a queue for a week or so. They would just wait. So they could register. I had been waiting for two days to get a colour TV. So... To buy a freezer, I had been waiting till morning... like from maybe 7PM or 8PM till morning. Outside. And there were quite a few of us... They brought five of these freezers. So the first five in the queue... And we didn't know how many they had. But the first five of us had a chance.”

“Let's get back to the year nineteen-eighty-nine. As I wanted to ask you: What were the songs people were singing in that theatre, besides the anthem and the Prayer for Marta?” - “We were singing... this son by Hutka... what was its name... oh this forgetfulness... 'Beautiful is to live, more beautiful is the sea, who is the most beautiful...' Right. That was just... People would sing it a lot back then and I still resonate with this song. As they would play it during some theatre performance from time to time... and it would all come back immediately... or if I would hear it playing on the radio, the whole November would just come back. As it had been a part of it, in a way... As there was this verse during which... during which you just had to wish something while humming, so I supposed that we all wished the same thing, that there was some meaning in what we were doing and that we would achieve something. And we all believed that.”