Ľubomír Vacek

“I didn´t have a good personal evaluation for the Communist Party. I have never joined the party, even though they asked me to. I always had some excuses, since deep inside I was against all of that. There were also meetings at the ČSAD (Bus Transport Company) and even if some people resigned their membership, I never inclined to that. Since I wanted to sustain my job, I had to be quiet, although I had a mind of my own.”

“ʻYou are a Czech and you shall ever be one,’ they used to say, and I didn't even speak Czech in front of them, although I could speak that language fluently. I felt real oppression. There were many of those who sympathized with Czechs, but also many of those who were against them.”