Otakar Klepárník

" I had a conference premiere there during a general strike, because Honza Edlman was away somewhere and Jirka Kašpar, who was supposed to do it, was somewhere in court and did not return. So, I turned some box over, some fruit box, and presented the general strike. There we were afraid of the reaction of the workers from Bořiny, because the Bořiny looked so reserved. Overall, workers from the big... it was THT, Ponas and Bořiny ... those workers looked so reserved. So, we were afraid of how it would be. We declared a general strike in smaller operations or, where we were. A lot of people came from there, and still the workers from Bořiny were not there – and until now I still have goosebumps… thirty years and I am not able to do it… Suddenly such a rumble, stomping and from Tylák through Tyršova street, the workers from Bořiny were coming. So many of them, the street was full. We took that as a moment of victory. They came and expressed support and solidarity and it was settled, from that point of view in Polička and its surroundings."

"After a very short time, we were all on that team, as we said, we were all summoned to the police station in order to check the identity card where our State Security officer was waiting for us. So, we were a kind of contact of the State Security, all of us who went abroad, including associated production management. And just regularly, before each journey, sometimes after each trip, they tried to get some information from us. My State Security Officer always loaded me in the car, except that I was in the police station, so he always loaded me in the car and drove me somewhere in the woods and there he tried to get some information from me. Asking me what I saw abroad, with whom I was talking, if anyone contacted me to do something."