Stanislav Tišer

“Sometimes I was pondering over whether it’s right. But I only did it for a short time. On the other hand, I thought – if the Japanese or a German guy comes here, they change a hundred marks and live here for a week as kings. But us, we need to work terribly long to earn that much. But he earns so much money, comes here – okay, he may become 200 marks shorter but he still has the other 800 if he brought a thousand – and can live here as a king. Usually, they didn’t even report. They came for four, five days and returned home. So this is how I saw it. We never tricked any local person, only the foreigners who were in the money. Most of those who came here had it, you know.”

“My family was at the first place. I’ve been married for thirty-two years. My daughter – she just turned 31 – graduated from university. That was paramount for me so that she’d become the first university graduate in our family. She finished with honors, works in her field, all good. I and my wife are also still together and that is the most important thing of all. The other thing is that nowadays I care more about good people coming together. Not bad people who do drugs and then drag other people down. Usually when I see it at the box training, I simply kick that person out. Because he would drag the others down. The boys who say they see a dad or an uncle in me – I don’t like that. But I try to help them get their stuff together, to change. I also give them advice: ‘Hey, if you go to the same places you did before, you’re gonna end up bad again.’”