Ivan Spěvák

“But the bridges were occupied by Russian soldiers; they were letting people through and so on. I was walking lightly, with nothing on me, but my friend had a briefcase with some papers or something. And they stopped him, asking what he was carrying, and they had to check him right away. And that’s when I was really worried about him. Of course, he didn’t have anything that could get him into trouble, but you never knew what might snap in their heads or what they might do to him, so I was anxious about him.”

"Since my dad wasn't very popular, somewhere, I don't know where, I don't know, it was decided that I shouldn't go to university. I applied to the electrical engineering faculty here at CTU. That was still at Charle´s square at that time. Well, but luckily I managed to get into the University of Engineering and Textiles in Liberec and I started there and I was there for the first six months and then I tried to transfer from the Liberec school to the Prague school and it wasn't so much watched for political reasons or because of my origin, so thanks to that I finally got into the electrical engineering faculty."