Ing. Eva Hozmanová

„Charta byla vyhlášena v lednu 1977 a já tu nástěnku, ten plakát, jsem tam dala taky v lednu 1977, to byla jediná souvislost, která byla. Pochopitelně ten Disman, který vychoval Pavla Kohouta, Pavel Kohout s tím měl asi něco taky společného. Ten plakát jsem ale celou dobu… přišel mi to říct vedoucí, řekl mi, že přijede nějaký estébák a bude mě vyšetřovat, ale u něj, že to není taky zlý, než kdyby mě pozvali někam do hospody. Přišel a já celou dobu brečela, pochopitelně jsem se bála, co se mnou udělají. Brečela jsem, udělala jsem ze sebe ještě většího hlupáka, než jsem opravdu byla. Dopadlo to dobře, až na to, že jsem do roku 1989, což bylo dva a půl roku [ve skutečnosti 12,5 roku] nedostala přidáno, ale to se nechalo vydržet.“

„V roce 1968 k nám vtrhli Rusové a v Lovosicích nám zničili úplně novou silnici z Ústí [nad Labem] do Lovosic, protože po ní jely tanky. My jsme se snažili, aby v Lovosicích netrefili, tak jsme strhávali cedulky a čísla z domu. Všude po Lovosicích byly různé nápisy, nejen po Lovosicích, ale také v Chomutově, kde byl zrovna můj šestiletý syn, který neustále nadával babičce, že neumí rusky, a že mu nepřečte nápisy, že to chce vědět. Do telefonu jsem mu říkala, že se to jmenuje: ‚Lenine vzbuď se, Brežněv se zbláznil! Lenin, prosnis', Brezhnev soshel s uma.‘ Maminka říkala, že si to stejně nebude pamatovat. Byli jsme rádi, že vůbec zavolali, protože asi týden jsme s nimi neměli telefonní spojení.“

“So, one of my colleagues gave me a calendar from April ’69. So without even looking at it, yeah, you know, I don’t know if I would have even noticed anything about it, I hung it up there some time in April ’77, which was a big mistake. If it’d been earlier, it might have been such a problem. And on 30 April Miloš Disman was born, who brought up such excellent children like Karel Kyncl and Pavel Kohout. So someone took it up to the director and it was really a big deal. They interrogated me upstairs about who had given it me, and I just started crying. I mean, I didn’t want to betray my colleague, so what was I supposed to do... In the end it worked out okay, except for the fact that till eighty-nine I was denied any sort of promotion, I didn’t get a single extra crown for those whole twelve years. But I was really lucky that that officer there was, he was sort of lenient. The other one at the time was at a spa retreat for three months. Later on I got word from my colleague – not till eighty-nine – that the other one would have thrown me out of there within an hour. But, hey, I didn’t mean to put it up. But the funniest part of it was that they let me keep the notice board because the head supervisor who oversaw those notice boards was actually my boss.”

“So I was at home, because I had a six-year-old, you know. But I remember that we weren’t asleep for some reason, maybe we’d already heard the airplanes, I don’t know. We turned on the radio and heard Hoffmann saying that people should not panic and nothing was going on and so on. So, even before heading into work that morning, we already knew that it was simply the end. I remember one very unpleasant thing: When we were leaving from Ústí there were Russian tanks rolling over and crushing the newly built road, I mean really crushing it, so much that it wasn’t fixed till two years later. But I remember, I can still remember a few other things: we were travelling during the week when they took Dubček and the rest to Russia, we went to go help out with the hops. And at the hops fields we were listening to radios you know and there was some Soviet soldier with a tank there, he circled around us two or three times, I can say that we really were very afraid.”