It was bearable, we had to bear it
Leoš Mayer was born on June 2, 1964 and spent most of his life in Liberec. From a young age, he was interested in music, which for him meant rebellion and defiance of the communist regime. He first played in the rock group HRC and later in the underground UKD. In 1988, he and his wife signed Charter 77, and together with others in Liberec they printed and distributed leaflets and published the samizdat magazine Nakub. He had to go to interrogations several times a week and was sent to a pre-trial detention cell. Due to the situation in Czechoslovakia shortly before the Velvet Revolution, he and his wife thought about emigrating.