When I meet the gendarmes, I'm reminded of the fear

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How the players in Dukla Jihlava experienced November 1989

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Interviews with military counterintelligence after the return of the hockey players from abroad

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While the dissidents seemed to be a bit angry with the state and constantly had a purposeful fight against it, I did not have a particular fight against the state, but let’s say I had that critical attitude.

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Because philosophy is part of culture, and a person should do culture in his language. I said as a matter of principle I would write it in Armenian.

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Nothing was happening in Armenia and we were so worried about why everything was boiling over there in Russia, and nothing was going on at our place.

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They raised their hands, as was customary in Europe, as a sign of victory. Later, [Zory] Balayan came and said, “No, we should raise like this [shows a fist], because this is a sign of unity, it’s a fist, it’s a thing, and that victory became a fist.”

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But what I said was that the problem there was not an abstract demand for independence, but [the ability] to transform the country in such a way, in its organizational, economic, structural, management, and other directions, that when that independence wo

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We opted for the legal path on March 21 and had to do a referendum in six months, i.e. on September 21. During this period the Putsch against Gorbachev took place, the country was collapsing, the most remote republics said they were independent, the parad

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People would stand up and say that we should include our claims, the Genocide in the Constitution etc., etc. And we were saying that it was not possible, because we did not have Russia’s protection anymore, and therefore we had to have some kind of relati

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