Tomáš Votava

"How did you... how did you perceive... I already asked about the division of Czechoslovakia, but we haven't talked about the eighty-nine yet. How did you perceive the revolution? Yeah. That sounds pretty crap to me, but I was not in the square, because I was a very fresh family owner, I was pretty careful, let's say. So I can't say that I pushed someone somewhere, I'd love to, but it didn't happen. So, is this really possible? Well, hey ... I don't have the credit for that, but it's very nice. That's ... I'm a little pessimistic, so I watched it on TV and they had to convince me a few times that it really worked, well. And then when they called Krila to the SNP to play something, then it's clear, that's ... that's it. That probably wouldn't work otherwise. You had ... I'm sorry, you probably had a family against ... an anti-regime regime or an opinion, didn't you? Well, Mom, she would be a very good dissident, but I have a feeling she wasn't because of her family. How come she didn't like something here, and I know she was nervous a lot, but she kept the reins. So my father, he called her very funny, that ... that "mom is an old anti-socialist element" and he, from very old times, had some left-wing roots that he took from my grandfather, so to his father, who I have such I don't know the feeling a little bit, for some reason he was inclined ... he wasn't a working cadre right, so. That was the honest left, the cafe type… Not. Just hard to say. I think it was like that, like that cunning left or I don't know, well. It was no conviction and no struggle for the rights of the working people and similar will. Well, and my father ... he was left with a little bit of it, so sometimes he was interested in bullshit like that, how nicely they build that Baikal highway. Of course, I was also interested in, because of trains. ”

"And if you remember, Mr. Mečiar chased ... I don't like him, if it didn't follow. He was chasing problems where he could, and one of the problems was certainly any subversive elements, and that means the topic of nationality. So he pissed me off, I have to say. Then rewrite the expression there, but I never became a fan of him, for example because of these demented ideas. But otherwise, I would have come across something that ... that nationality is supposed to be a problem. All right, just be careful. I'm two meters again, when I wear a normal coat, I don't look malnourished. It's clear to me that up to this height, some people don't add any exceptions even if they think so, so I don't know. From my point of view, I didn't run into a problem, but if I was a small figure, maybe I would. Hard to say. So I don't know. I don't think so. I'll skip now ... I'll skip some decades now. How did you perceive the division of Czechoslovakia? Not positive, because if you remember, it was missing there, the moment of some proving, of some referendum. So it made me a little bit annoyed, but practically, but so nice, nice. Practically speaking, you have other papers, it's called differently, it's the half of what you know, but that could be everything, if no one is involved, it can be. I took it very practically, but I think they should have asked. Even somewhere on a trip, I talked to someone, with some kind of people. There were several nationalities and there was something to drink and I tried to explain them with my then incredibly bad German, that look Czech and Slovakia was created by division and not by referendum. For God, they didn't believe - it was some Swiss, Germans and some others - that they understood how to do it. Well, just like that. They didn't understand. This problem ... Just two people sit down in Brno in the garden of a historic villa, have a raspberry, talk and it's equipped. And the only thing that got on my nerves so little, that's well ... practically nice, but maybe it's really better than I know. I'm not a political scientist so ... I take it they could ask, but I guess they're there somehow, well. So yes, there is a certain nostalgia here, but that I would be a big Czechoslovak and go to wave the original flag... no, no. So… ”