Václav Blabolil

"Olga was strict. Olga was strict, but I had a good relationship with her. Because I was actually the only one who came there asking if she needs to help with anything. With the dog, Jula, I think her name was, so I went out with it, I was playing with it, so I was such ... such a little gray mouse aside, so no one even knew my name, and I didn't mind, but I was just absorbing the atmosphere, it was something amazing. As they were doing theater there, those scenes from history, live paintings, when they invented a scene from history and now everyone put something on himself/herself, they sewed it or something ... Actually, there was a canvas, in a meadow among the trees, and that canvas it unfolded and there was a scene where the figures were, and it was all supposed to depict a historical event. Or for example Trešňák, he gave her a picture, it was naive art. It was on a painting stand, and it was there in the middle of their yard. And now Magor came there, he was out of jail, he began to criticize and insult the picture as a critic, and Třešňák was defending it from behind the picture."

"So, he actually introduced me in Hrádeček and then I was going to Hrádeček regularly. I managed it, for example, by taking a tape player in my backpack, riding a bicycle to Hrádeček and recording records there. Because there was the audience from Havel, there were records, but he was already arrested, it was in the year 1980, I think, so he was already arrested for VONS (Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted), that was the process, and he had four and a half years or so. Olga was happy because I was actually guarding her cottage, she could go to the forest with her dog, and then I not only went there to record, but also to play ping pong, so I spent quite a bit of time in Hrádeček. Well, and I wanted to sign the Charter there, but Olga talked me out of it. She said that it would be better if I didn't stand out like that and that I could cooperate anyway, and she gave me a task. There was a member of the Jazz Section, Vlasta Matoušek, who was imprisoned, there was some trial with that Jazz Section. He was imprisoned as a political prisoner, so she gave me the job to process the documents, well, and I knew some of the people, so I visited people, including parents, I got the documents for VONS, and because he was arrested with Havel, they got it another way, but already back then I started working like this. I wanted to devote myself fully."