Pavel Fátor

"However, that morning, when we gathered in front of the school to say that they were going to the demonstration, an article appeared in Rudé právo (Red Justice newspaper) saying that the comrades from the Soviet Union simply decided to deploy SS-20 missiles in our country in response to the deployment of American missiles. And now, of course, the management of those schools got nervous that they might interpret the demonstration as a protest against the Soviet rockets. However, the demonstration somehow took place, and after it he invited us... our kind of... apparently a school cop... he invited us to his office as ideologically educational executives of all classes, and he urged us to closely monitor the reactions of our fellow students and any inappropriate reactions, possibly any attempts to signature actions against Soviet missiles, to report, as ideological referents. I've always been pretty rowdy, so I took the SSM (Socialist Youth Union) card out of my pocket and threw it on his desk, maybe even at him, and I said - if I can say it on this show, as it was - 'fuck you!', and I walked away."

“I ran into a bit of trouble about halfway through the vacation, before the start of freshman year, I received a letter saying that I had been selected to participate in the training of the Czechoslovak Socialist Youth Union officials. And of course, when I saw the letter, I knew it was going to ruin more than a week of my summer vacation, so of course, I said I didn't give a damn about it, but my dad told me, 'Don't be silly, if they've chosen you like that, then you'd better go there, you're not fully admitted in that school yet.' So I went there, I guess it was... It was called Na Rezku. It was some kind of training centre for comrades from the Socialist Youth Union. And there, we learned how to hold meetings for more than a week. Awesome, I have a holding of meetings certificate, not many people do! How resolutions are formed and the like.”