Miloslav Holas

“Since I was monitoring the situation, I was ready for it, I knew that it would not turn out otherwise. Then they forced my father to close his business but he wanted to offer it to the Jednota company. But not even Jednota would accept it and he eventually ended up in a rope-making factory as a machine operator, he was winding ropes there. He suffered a work injury there, a band-wheel tore off a bit of his finger, and after he recovered he thus got a job as a gatekeeper in a car repair shop in Sobotecká Street. So he was in that car repair shop and he worked there as a gatekeeper.”

“That was already a period of political thaw, Dubček was in power, he was a great politician. Then they got rid of him, too, he did not suit them and he ended up badly. Well, these are not pleasant memories, the time when the Soviet army was temporarily here. They said that they would be here only temporarily, and then it lasted for 40 years.”