Zdeněk Rychlý

"Well, we also experienced about twice as bad a time when my father, who went to Všenory on foot from Klínec to the train, because the connection here, like from Dobříš, was not suitable, because he started his shift at six o'clock at Wilson station, which actually lasted the whole night. And so in the morning he returned by train around quarter to nine. And it happened, as I said, twice that he didn't come home. Now we worried about what happened to him. Mom, of course, because Dad liked beer sometimes, too, she thought they were sitting in a pub or celebrating. And he didn't come home until the afternoon, and his lip was cut open with a lump here, so the mother was ashamed that he didn't come home, so she thought he was drunk or something. And he said to her, ´How would I be drunk! I was interrogated by the Gestapo in Pečkárna in Prague!'”

"As I said we play theatre. I had a task, as the play had to be reported to the communists prior to being played, so a request had to be made, so the headline and the author of the game had to be reported, because they were checking, whether it was politically incorrect or against the communist regime. And in Klínec at that time there was the mayor of the village, of course it was not a mayor, but there were the chairmen of the national committees, it was a certain Mr. Humhal, who simply had to allow us to give us a stamp that the national committee agrees that we can run the theatre. And we had the request there, I don't know for about three weeks, and it didn't work and it was not processed. And I urged it about three times, I was there, in the office of the National Committee several times, and I was always told: 'Leave the theatre alone!' And that really got me angry; it was just before the war, after the conscription it was already. And I said: 'Mr. Humhal, as long as you work here as chairman of the national committee, there will be nothing really solid good in Klínec!'