History was a litmus test for the relationship to reality

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… about the past. However, even those newspapers from the 1968s were taboo, things that related to the non-communist …

Father was forced by the communists to join the cooperative

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… eyes. I didn't realize that it was a difficult time until 1968, when I was scrounging in the attic where old papers …

Under surveillance of the secret police

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… advance. I was interrogated perhaps fifteen times between 1968 and 1989.” …

Roman Prajzler’s father arrested in August 1969

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… some... Well, it was a year after the Soviet occupation in 1968, so there were some disturbances in Prague.” …

How about going to Czechoslovakia?

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… said: ‚No, they are too catholic, I cannot go there.‘ Then 1968 came and eleven thousand Czechs and one woman in an …

Deciding to stay in the USA

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… was very natural, I understood that. But especially in 1968 when the Russians moved in, I said ‘no chance that I …

Labelling people is dumb

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… As far as I know, Jiří Pelikán had published Listy. In 1968, Literární noviny were outlawed, so they transformed to …

He didn't see being assigned to a work unit as a punishment

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… point in denying it. My cousin had fled to Germany in the 1968 and there was trouble. So I had to stay there and then …

A letter to Petr Bezruč

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… chronicle at home for many years before I borrowed it in 1968 to a member of our troop who fled to the West. The …

Family with a communist past

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… I don't know how far he participated in the organisation of 1968, as I read later in books like “Frost Comes from the …