Miroslav Dvořák

"I only worked on the transmitter. Someone changed several jobs, but I was only there. But I'll come back to the fact that there was a time when even my parents, even my dad... in the pub, guys would say to him, 'Hey, Mirek's in the party, isn't he?' He says he's not.' And he thought... he didn't even believe me. He thought that whoever worked at the transmitter must be a communist. And I told him, 'I'm not in the party.' I know my dad was very much against it. And I don't think I would have done that to him, even for a job position... And even then the main chairman of the party, he was an old man, died. And the presidency of the communist party organization was taken over by my classmate who went to school with me in Morašice. And so he was the chairman. And only once he came to the SW [short wave] center where I served. In the lunch break, I was standing by the window, and he came, 'Mirek, would you like to join us?' And so I said to him, 'Jarda, no way, absolutely not. You know how my father is, and that's out of the question.'"

"In the ninth grade, the headmaster of the school in Morašice was a big communist. And in those days it wasn't that when we finished school we wculd apply there or there. The application was gathered in the school and the headmaster decided whether or not to send it in, that's the way it was. I wanted to go to school for some kind of technical secondary study because I was a good student. I had a distinction, but it didn't matter because the headmaster blocked it and didn't send the application anywhere. Basically, he didn't want me to go outside agriculture and even wanted me to go into apprenticeship. He wouldn't even let me, I would have gone to the agricultural school in Litomyšl, the secondary school. But he didn't let me do that either. So it ended up that it was the end of the school year. Everybody knew that they would go here, they would go there, somebody would go there, and I would go nowhere. And so my parents said, 'You'll be at home, we'll support you.'"