Drahomíra Štěpánová

"We also had to write such a thing at the time that we had made a mistake. It was such a beautiful paper that the communists invented. And in order to keep peace, even our boss, who was like normal, everything, never us, told us: 'Look, I'll advise you, sign it, so that we have peace, so that they don't put some communist here.' So I signed there, or I had to write that I was mistaken, I don't know now, I guess I was... there was some kind of rubbish and then I wrote 'Mistaken, Štěpánová '. And we all did that."

"Unfortunately, Daddy was accused wrongly, of course, by a communist who wanted to make some extra money on the construction site, because Daddy was a construction manager. Well, and Daddy, because he was from the village, and he was just so righteous and didn't want to, so he paid for it a bit, so this communist, in case Daddy would like to say something somewhere, reported that Daddy wanted to steal. Well, that's the way it used to be when the communists made something up. That's what I have to say, we used to call them commies, so it's clear who I'm talking about. So they didn't know properly what to sentence him to, so in the end [they said] he endangered the general telecommunications network in Prague, which was stupid, but so he was sentenced after a year, to Jáchymov of course, but because he wasn't a big political prisoner he could have been in the surface mines."