Juraj Flamik

“In 1988 people who had a unified competence-moral attitude, were joining VPN. I think it was a good heritage, and, intuitively, also the young representatives of For a decent Slovakia are not seeking other competence, but this one. They are not rooted in youth fractions of opposition political parties. As if after 30 years, the new generation in Slovakia came from the same positions, from individual responsibility, some moral stance, and from the need of cooperation, and invited others to join us. I see a parallel in this.”

“We certainly did not belong to any “hard fraction”, and did not distance ourselves from the regime as dissent. As Milan Šimečka recalls, ecologists accepted the regime, did not attempt to change it, did not challenge it. But there was a strict line, that we never crossed. I think the difference is in fact, that he as a dissident had to perceive the line very strictly from the other side. But we perceived it as much more diffused, because we transgressed it and no one has stopped us. We could have done a lot of things.”