"I used to go to aerobics seminars. At around 5 pm, I walked down the Wenceslas Square and they were already demonstrating. The police was pressing us. I thought Damn, they might start rounding us, I don't want to get caught in this. I wanted to walk to the Muzeum metro station and get down to the underpass."
„It was after midnight, I’m sure, maybe it was even one in the morning. We went across the Šalda Square and there were the police all over the place. We were afraid that they would stop us because there were about seven of us in the car and we would paz a fine. Everyone was plastered except for the driver who had not drunk. We all thought that there was something going on because there were all those police officers around.“
"I never needed to worry about my job [...] nobody wanted to work there. I never worried that they would fire me. Some people joined the Communist party only so that they could keep their their warm spots. I never was in such a situation. I dared not to go to the First of May celebrations. I didn't go anyway."
I didn’t attend the May Day celebrations
Milada Ester Koláčková was born on 13 June 1947 in Ústí nad Orlicí. Due to a cadre assessment, she could not study at the gymnasium. She experienced the arrival of the Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968 in Liberec. On 28 October 1989, she witnessed an anti-regime demonstration on Wenceslas Square in Prague. She also participated in several student demonstrations at universities. At the time of the filming (2016), she lived in Liberec.
