Mgr. David Ručka

Our class, she taught English and German, it was probably because she had to have a better overview because she knew those languages and really, she mastered them very well, she was particularly good. And sometimes she had to force us to join the SSM, for example with which some had a problem and refused. I remember one of my classmates who simply refused to join the SSM and that she put some pressure on him, at the same time feeling from some such her remarks that her inner opinion was completely different. It was in several teachers, but there were such classics, I would say communists who went their own way. For example, we had military training, there we just learned that there are some annoying radios and still Russian. We had compulsory Russian from the fifth grade, and it continued at the grammar school. Of course, I am glad now that I can still read something in Cyrillic, and I even graduated from Russian and English. In that Russian, the subject matter we took over and the texts were still about how the Soviet Union is the best country in the world, what advanced economy they have, what advanced technology they have, namely flying, the Gagarin and Tereshkova and that was over and over. Just then, we became more and more funny about it, and one took it less and less seriously and more and more than a caricature.

There was such a small problem, because I did not go into Sparks, I did not even go into a Pioneer, and it started to get a little tense when I went to high school, because it was impossible for a person who was not in the Pioneer to get to some high school or grammar school, as planned for me, or I imagined. And then it was solved in such an interesting way that a tourist club was created, which of course also had to be a pioneer organization, and I enjoyed it, because I just enjoyed tourism, so I joined the tourist club and over time I became an official pioneer. And what was so funny about it was that mostly those pioneers entered the union in masse, in the cinema, specifically in our city there was a big cinema, and everyone met there, and they were there, they had their oaths in masse. And I had a pioneering oath alone with my group, which was about ten people in that tourist club, I still remember. I recited it myself in front of the cinema in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí as part of our tourist trip. So, I was like a dissident that I joined late, but then my entry was individual I would say in a pioneer organization.