Jaroslav Hrbáč

"In production management, we were was a young generation, I was in my thirties at the time, and they were already five, six or ten years before retirement, so they ruled. When the so-called Prague Spring came, yes, they encouraged it indeed. You have freedom, so you can ask for what you want, and so on. I always told them, 'Please be so kind, yes, we are not the kind of people you can treat however you please. And even though there is a democracy, democracy yes, but you can not deal with people like this,' and so on. So I was mocking him, even though he was the chairman of the regional organization, in short, a Horňácko rebel."

"There were no prospects for me. That's how badly they treated me back then. In short, if someone wanted to hire me to a workshop or as a master or, God forbid, a foreman (that would be a higher position), one organization would always say, 'Yes, we want him, we'll take him,' but those who were supposed to let me in said, 'No.' So I had to keep doing what I was doing but in the lower class. So they simply played with me as much as they needed. Back then, after that, there were already new cadres... Then in a few years, I got lucky, it wasn't until 1981 that he came to see me – at that time there were so-called nomenclature cadres, and one of those cadres came to see me, I won't name him – asking if I would advise him on his diploma and tell him something about production management."