Miloš Voráč

"At that time, samizdat was already being copied, typed, and multiplied in a relatively large number, and I couldn't manage to copy the individual titles myself, which I also tried to do, but it was a really big time-sucker and it required more or less copying skills, and I was looking for someone to take on each of these projects and to copy it. Specifically it was the Havel´s Protocols, and I mentioned to a friend of mine once that I was having trouble and not keeping up with the copying, if he knew of anyone who... But the friend was at the military service at the time. So I thought it would be more of a laughing matter and he would send me somewhere, but he didn't, he said, 'I'll take it to the army,' because he was just on leave, 'and I'll arrange it there.' I said, 'Wait, but at the military service, how are you going to do it?' He said, 'Leave it to me, I have a friend there and he will take care of it.' And that friend was private Jiří Rys, who was the typist of the chief of the western military district in Tábor. I mean, some general staff, I don't know if I'm saying it exactly, and this private Jiří Rys in the general staff building gradually typed the whole of the Havel´s Protocols."

"I was finishing primary school in '74, and in that atmosphere and in that environment there was a guidance counsellor for further studies who told me that if we hadn't changed our minds for years, by which she meant religion, that all those A's were useless and that I should look for some kind of apprenticeship. The other brothers weren't affected that way because one was four years earlier and it wasn't so insistent, and second one was six years later and it wasn't so insistent either. But in the first half of the seventies, I would say that this supervision to punish all those who were in some way so-called guilty was the most cruel. And again, you don't negotiate with the Bolshevik bunch, i.e. when they offered me the apprenticeship, my father said, 'You're going to the apprenticeship.'"