Bohumír Slavík

"The strike - we were all at the school, but there was no teaching, the school was closed. The cops wanted to go in, we had strike patrols, like that. Then the neighbours started bringing us - maybe from the house where we stole the sticks - some rolls in the morning, I think. We were there for about three days. So I must confess that I had white wine there."

"I was in Vinohrady at the time and I was looking out the window and tanks were driving along Korunní Street and they were also aiming at that window on the fifth floor. When I was there, I was eating some fruit, I was throwing down stones and I had my feet on the fifth floor - they were hanging on a metal windowsill, yeah, down into the street."

"It was not yet known that I had signed the Charter, and I told Hejda. From then on, it became more rough. A lot of people who had something to do with the Charter came to Dlážděná, and soon the moment came when Hejda was fired. And because I used to sit here and there in the graphics department and knew the artists, I became the head of graphics. And all through the eighties we were buying up work from painters who either weren't allowed to sell at all, or could only sell through Dílo, and they didn't want them there. So they sold through us. Of course, they weren't allowed to sign it, so other people signed for them. For example, I sold instead of Naďa Plíšková. Hejda sued the Book State Enterprise after he was made redundant. It was him, for example, who first started buying Vladimír Boudník's works. Boudník's friends used to come to Dlážděnka to see him. And Hejda called me to court as his witness."

"Some horrible people got together and made a statement. And there was just a Saffron (Šafrán) event in Baráčnická rychta, they were held there very often. And there were people there who suited my intended action, there were Andrej Stankovič and Jirka Pallas. So I signed the Charter. I didn't even read it, and Vlasta Třešňák didn't either, he signed it like I did."

"Jiří Kolář used to come to Dlážděná the most, then writers such as Ivan Klíma. And also, when he wasn't in prison, Ivánek Jirous and so on would come there. And it all started when the Charter already existed. I would say that we had to be monitored in some way, sometimes it seemed almost impossible what was going on in Dlážděná. I'm thinking of those who came there, and I don't mean friends, but customers of the graphics shop, where everything was accumulating. Books were sold in the front, someone always brought beer into the graphics shop and various people sat there and had various conversations, and I didn't think of it that way then, but today I think that being a customer of the graphics shop, but having other intentions, could have been quite good."