Zdeněk Slezák

"And one day we came back to the hotel like that in the evening and there we were all sitting around the table and we were tired, so we ordered some food, and next to the table we all sat and listened to the radio. From my point of view there was an idiotic play on the theme of how tanks attack Czechoslovak Radio and shooting in Prague. And I was wondering, why they're fooling around, maybe we've been through it all, May 5, the Prague Uprising and so on. So what is it that suddenly interests people? But gradually we have found out that it did not entirely deal with World War II, but it regarded the present."

"Grandma, a witness to the two world wars, immediately said, 'Children, we have to buy some supplies, you have to prepare for the fact that there may be a war.' So they bought some groceries, took me to the sports shop and bought me shoes there, because she said, 'Look, you're going to be this old and maybe you'll have to go somewhere, so we have to buy you good shoes for the trip.' So I had boots at the time that lasted for about twenty years, because they really were sturdy shoes at the time. So it still reminded me of that time."