Eva Vávrová

"They didn't like to let me do it, but they were just scared at the time. When they saw what the comrades could do with these people, how they could bully them, they were afraid, so they let me do it. And I personally would have hated it terribly if they had forbidden it, because I desired to be among the children so much and that would have made me feel like an outcast again, although of course in two or three years I saw through that. That was sometimes, I don't know what grade you go to Pioneer in, sometimes second in third, I don't remember, but we were tiny. I wanted so badly to be a Pioneer too. And when I saw how we were being abused, we always had to go somewhere to sing and dance at all those celebrations of all those communist holidays, then I got tired of it very soon."

"My dad got a job somewhere, then got laid off again, so he tried again somewhere else, and again he got some menial job somewhere else, so they decided to move to Hronov. It wasn't much better there either. It was just that the cadre profile of these people was... they had a blot on their reputation like this and it went with them to the grave. So he didn't have any good jobs in Hronov either. I kind of remember that. One time he worked in the next village in Poříčí in Mezo, then he worked in Kovopodnik, then he worked in Tepna again, but always some kind of menial work and a few pennies for that."