Věra Vacková

"And this director was such a coat-changer. Because I heard that he was a Boy Scout, and even that he was in that homogeneous scout where they opened with a prayer. And then he used those scouting experiences with the communist ones. So he invented, when there was a witch burning, he had three boundaries built on the hill above the church, and he had the ninth grade boys make warmongers - mannequins of Eisenhower, Truman, and Roosevelt. Roosevelt I think was paralyzed and couldn't walk, so they got some old armchair, and they carried that dummy in that parade on that armchair. Well, and they went in a procession up that hill, and there was a speech, and then they sat the dummies on those three borders, and they lit them on fire, and they burned the warmongers. That's the kind of nonsense he was making up."

"So what I want to stress is that I respect my parents immensely. Because when my father was transferred in the forty-eighth century and they took revenge on him like that, my mother was left alone with the four of us and she said that she came to school every day and in her place there was an application for the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and a pen next to it. I don't know how long, if it was a week or ten days, she threw it in the trash until they gave up. My mother thought, 'If I'm fired, I'll go to work in the JZD and support these children in this way.' Actually, she was fired, she stayed working in that school, but she did this and I appreciate her very much for that. And then my dad, again, when there was this signing action that we agree with the just sentence of Milada Horáková, not a single dad from the district signed it. And they told him why he didn't sign it. And he said, 'How can I sign it, I don't even have the right to vote?' And they said, 'We don't mind.' And dad said, 'But I do mind.' So he was the only one who had the courage not to sign it. So I respect my parents immensely for being brave like that."