František Klement

"We had a little library there, the writings of Marxism-Leninism. And there was a little book among them, and it consisted entirely of contributions of a single spirit. The first chapter was called The Light Bulb, and it said, 'All the people in the whole world think that the light bulb was invented by Thomas Alva Edison in America. But it is not so! Fifty years before, a Russian man, Ivan Ivanovič, had also invented the light bulb, but only the stuffy Tsarist regime prevented him from perfecting the invention. And this is how important inventions were discussed. At the time, we laughed until we were clutching our stomachs. From the point of view of current events in Russia, I don't find it so funny. It captures the spirit of Russia exactly - 'we are the best and everyone else is scum'."