Alena Heinrichová

"We are the war generation. We came out of unbelievable misery, and like when you're somewhere... and you're in a mess, you're always going to see who's leading you forward. And there was nothing here but the communists who led us forward. We knew nothing else. I did not know capitalism firsthand, I did not know the multi-party government. I only knew the government of one of these parties, so I couldn't choose from anything. I know it wasn't right, I know it could have been done differently, but at the time we didn't know anything else. So let me tell you one thing. Personally, I am left-wing today. I can't be anything else, because my ancestors and ancestors were workers and maids, so I had no luxury house or factory anywhere, or any of us. But in the end, my grandfather Staňková was imprisoned twice, because they were organising folk camps."

"Look, when I saw... I've never been to a demonstration or alike. There was much excitement, and it's beautiful, it's perfect and all. I came home, turned on the television and saw the Letna Plain, everyone was shouting and ringing their keys. So the first thing I remembered was those Hitler movies. I'm telling you the way it is, I'm not going to pretend here. I remembered the first Hitler movies, all the yelling, "Siegh Heil, Siegh Heil!" That's how it was, that's how it hit me, like that. Think what you want. I don't lie or steal. That was the thing, then it went on, of course. The owners started coming to me. I have been in the collective farm since January or February 1989 and in December 1989 they came there and started attacking me and yelling: 'You stole our land! You ruined my building! ‘Only in a year, what a nonsense indeed. It's just that the people were so euphoric that, in my opinion, they didn't think wisely anymore."