Ing. Jan Vítek

„I felt very strongly about it as a young sensitive person of around twenty years of age, I thought if was terrible. Because I also felt quite hopeful. I was a lot into Literární listy and such magazines that were available. And at the time anything was readable. And then the breakthrough came, when they invaded us. Well and what took me most, was how kind people were to each other after invasion and they though the same. When I waited on a tram in Braník, and it was not going, the cars passing by would stop and drivers offered people to give them a ride. And then two years later all that was gone and all those people with goose stomachs began making their carriers. And climbing the backs of those, who could not stomach it, and that made me quite disgusted and I even conceived hatred for the nation as such.“

„Rudolf Zeman would always bring me a copy, as I had access to a copy machine in the International Students Union. And first I made ten and later fifty pieces out of a single copy as he wished. It was quite dangerous as the copy machine was in a hallway of Jakeš´office or at the head of the Union, Skála, right in front of his office. So I had to wait until they left, but once it happened that I needed to go multiply the papers and Skála was still there and not leaving. So I was quite cheeky and took an economic table and kept it on top of the whole file I was copying. And he got out and said: ‚What are you copying here?‘ ‚Well just some tables, I am bored with those.‘ And all through the talking I was scared he would not lift up the top paper and see the real stuff, Lidové noviny, underneath it...“