Marie Haisová

"From the very beginning, I knew Jirka Fuchsa from Klatovy, who dated Sabina Krausová and her father was a Chartist. They were looking for someone to help them retype those documents. Someone always wrote something about, for example, the state of the environment or the state of education, simply from certain areas of life. So, it was in the original and it was necessary to get it to the people. So, if I would be willing to cooperate. Two years after that, I was on a maternity leave and I was at home, so in the evenings I typed copies on the typewriter, ten to fourteen through the hammer could be done. They always brought me the document and I copied it at home, I returned copies back to the person who assigned it to me, and I kept one copy or I read it while transcribing it, so when the revolution came, I was in the picture. A lot of people didn't know what was going on. Kindergarten that suddenly opened its doors and people don't know what to do. Thanks to the Charter, I was always informed and knew what it was about, how the regime manipulates people and enslaves them. I also copied a few books for Petlice. For example Být nebo mít (To have or to be) by Erich Fromm or Kosočtverce na ohradách … So, in the evenings, when I put the children to bed, I wrote for the Charter."

"In Klatovy, in that small town, people began to get used to it very quickly, they immediately founded the Union of Leninist Youth there, they simply accepted the situation that there will be totalitarianism here again. That no Prague spring will bloom there. In 1969 there were protests on the anniversary of the occupation, and as the secretary of the commercial deputy, which was quite an interesting position, I had access to an Ormig (a photocopier), a kind of xerox, the forerunner of today's copiers. Back then, I copied protest leaflets against the entry of the Soviets into our territory, and we put them into mailboxes and called for protests so that people would walk to work - and I don't know exactly what ten points there were, how to express that disagreement. It ended with us all being caught, we all ended up at State Security, we were all interrogated. My friends had a record in the criminal register, they definitely already had a criminal record. Well, and me... We had acting director Jůva there at the time, and he bought me out. He invited the State Security officers and I saw them leaving with full briefcases. He gave them gifts so they wouldn't ruin my life. They just punished me by removing me from my position as secretary and I went to work in the sample room, packing parcels for Russia."