Eva Vopěnková

"Back in '68, in August, because they knew I liked to paint, they would come to me to paint some posters, so I would paint like... like a big one like a butt and a big army boot next to it, like all the people would send the soldiers away. Well, and then, after that passed, people would come up to me again and say, 'Don't worry, don't worry, we've destroyed those posters. Don't worry, nothing will happen to you.' Because then they were looking for who drew it, who wrote it. People started showing up, people at work, college students, lawyers who had lost their jobs, and suddenly I saw them there in the workshop at the lathe."

"When I was about five or four years old, it was always the May Day parade, and there were always huge poster pictures of Marx and Engels and stuff. And that was always, because I lived in a dairy in a factory, so that's where it was, that's where they used to get the workers for the parade. Well, and they always put it away somewhere. And because I was a kid and I didn't like the Marx being bearded, so I tore it up with a stick. They put it away after the parade, they put it away at the doorman's place somehow. Well, and I got in there as a kid and damaged it, so it became a big investigation as to who did it, because they were afraid it was some kind of anti-state. When it was revealed that I had done it, they rather made fun of it."