Jaroslav Havel

"Nobody can imagine this. I would not wish it upon anyone, to end one's course of life like this. It was a terrible sacrifice for me. I was content there, I was a student, I liked the student life, even though it was difficult. I had to be at the dorms. It was also bad teaching, but I was not a bad student, I had an average of 1.5 from the courses, for which I studied. I would not wish upon anyone for them to have to give up their education. I brought a terrible sacrifice to everything altogether back then."

"When they called me to mandatory military service, they did interviews with them. They wanted to know, what the person believes, how he is capable for them, what is his class background, and so on. When they did the interview with him, I know this exactly, because he later told us, because told us, how it happened, that he was reassigned to the labor formations without weapons. They asked him, what he believes, if he believes in socialism. And he answered them, that he believes only that, which he is convinced is right. And it was enough for them to reassign him and he went somewhere else. At the same time his friend of the same age who went with him nodded along to everything they wanted, and they assigned him to the air force. And so it was like this."