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„I still remember how nervous I was even in 1990 until the matters somewhat settled down. Because I remember that in Prague, it was pretty tumultous but comrade director Drážský decided that the Construction Machines factory should oranise a demonstration as well, to show that we want that socialism. So there was a demonstration. We went there and I don’t remember what the meeting point was, in some hotel, Beseda, I think but I am not sure. I remember that there was an attendance sheet we had to sign.We knew that it was different in Prague but in villages, nothing had changed, nor in Plzeň. So, some henchman of comrade Drážský came and told us: ‚Come on, boys, sign the attendance sheet so that we‘re done with it and the lunch can be served.’ Some of us did not even sign it.”

„I remember one more event that has stuck in my memory. The death of Leonid Brezhnev. As I had talked about that comrade Bažant, so, when there was Brezhnev’s burial going on and they couldn’t hold the ropes and dropped him pretty swiftly to the grave, it was in the morning. We were just having our snack. We sat in the workshop, we had such tables there. He [comrade Bažant] ran around like a madman although he did not have to and yelled at people: ‚Do stand up, you!‘ He came to our table as well and he growled like a tiger that we should stand up [in reverence].“