Jaromír Moravec

“Today I feel no relief. I've been to Wenceslas Square, I've been to Letná. And I feel no relief and I keep telling myself, 'Here I am again after thirty years and why? Where did we get to? And as I can see where we are all heading, that no one cares who our representatives are, I am just sick of it.”

“I was a bit disappointed. As I got engaged in this, I told myself that I couldn't allow my children to ask me one day: 'What have you been doing when the situation needed you to do something?' So this was also a thing that kept me going, apart from the fact that I wanted to get rid of communism once for all.”

“Back then, we used to wear a ribbon in national colours. I went on a bus to Jedlová where I had been working and I had this ribbon pinned to my coat, and there were quite many people on the bus who would just keep staring at me as if I was some kind of a pariah. That's a thing I remember quite well, yet I had prevailed.”

“This gang of maintenance men from Polička took over the mill and they had been operating it for about a year. They ended their stay there by shredding two freight cars of pure salt. When my father saw this, he went to see their boss and asked him whether they knew what they were doing. He told him that everything would be cleaned and it would be just fine. But that wasn't the case. When they left the mill, everything got rusty. As salt absorbs water, so even the nails in the floor get rusty.”