Vladimír Líbal

"We still think that there must have been someone who reported it. I made an invitation, which was kindly printed for me by the pressman of the district cultural center, where I wrote a poem. Because the disco was supposed to take place in February, I wrote, 'Will it be February or won't it be white?' I didn't mean anything at all, for God's sake. They said I made it clear that February could be bloody. That was at the time of the anniversary of February. So that was an excuse. And they were already into it and there were interrogations. They asked, 'Why? For what reasons? What did I mean by that? ‘And so on.”

"When I see the film Pelíšky, it is exactly our family. My dad wrote to my mom a menu for each week. When I went to a place where my dad was, I had to knock. When I said 'hello', he brought me back and I had to say 'honor to work, Dad'. When I pronounced the word 'Russians' in 1968, I was slapped. Today, I realize that our family in Mělník was perceived by the prism that my father had a high position within the party, which I did not realize as a child. But that's just the way it was. However, I would say an essential thing. I know for sure that my father was a really convinced communist, not a careerist. He didn't have time for us, he went to meetings, there was faith. Just the normal belief that communism would improve our lives. It was there and according to that, it more or less turned out after 1968."