Jiří Stuchlý

“There were a lot of nicknames in our unit. It was not a unit, it was a menu. Preclík (Pretzel), Žemlovka (Bread Pudding), Sádlo (Lard), Máslo (Butter), Chleba (Bread) and similar ones were there. Every boy deserved his nickname. A boy came carrying his camping things s in a big suitcase instead of a rucksack. So we immediately called him Suitcase. There was a boy who always wore a Čedok hat, so he was Pepa Čedok. There was a boy and everything took him really long time and he messed up everything, so we called him Incident. And we had other nicknames like that. Or a boy came saying that he could not attend the unit because he was going to move. ’Where are you moving?’ - ’To Borůvka (blueberry).’ - ’Where is that? I mean Borůvka (blueberry)? It was not Borůvka (blueberry) but Hrabůvka. I said: ’don´t worry, you will take this tram and you can come, you can go on attending.’ He was as happy as a clam. However, we called him Borůvka since that moment. And that is how the boys got their nicknames.”

Nothing was happening from 1969 to 1970, we were scouts. So-called normalization started in 1970, so we had to change and we became pioneers. As far as our work is concerned nothing changed but we were pioneers. It was the only and main change.”