History was a litmus test for the relationship to reality
(video)… 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
(video)… 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
(video)… advance. I was interrogated perhaps fifteen times between 1968 and 1989.” …
Roman Prajzler’s father arrested in August 1969
(audio)… some... Well, it was a year after the Soviet occupation in 1968, so there were some disturbances in Prague.” …
How about going to Czechoslovakia?
(audio)… 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
(audio)… 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
(video)… 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
(video)… 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
(audio)… 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
(audio)… I don't know how far he participated in the organisation of 1968, as I read later in books like “Frost Comes from the …