Zuzana Hudečková

"And we had this teacher there, who I think was some kind of workman who had only had some kind of crash course, they only gave them... Because when they fired the original teachers, they didn't have anyone to teach. So they gave the workers' cadres, but again only those selected who thought properly politically, a one-year course, for example. And of course, the classic professors who were still there from the previous era looked down on these teachers a bit; it was really just a political game. I remember once in that group, which was basically a class, we were discussing something and got into an argument. It was about Christianity and the Bible. He took out his communist book, banged it on the desk, which I still remember to this day, and shouted, 'This is my Bible!' So we just stared at him, no one dared to argue with him too much, but we said to ourselves, 'Oh, that's awful...'"

"So I managed to get there on my first try. The points I earned for the things around me probably helped too. And back then, of course, it was done by writing it down on paper and posting it on the gate of the law school. At that time, because it was always done at the end of the year, I was working as a leader at a pioneer camp, so I was away. One of our friends went there to find out if I had gotten in or not. And back then, there were no cell phones, so we had to make complicated phone calls to find out if I had gotten in or not. Among other things, he told me who else had gotten in, who was ahead of me, for example. And among other things, there was the name Urválek. I don't know if that means anything to you, but Urválek was a notorious prosecutor who prosecuted... He was really, I can honestly say, a monster, he prosecuted death penalty cases. I don't know if he was directly involved with Horáková, but he prosecuted such serious cases. So he was a truly horrible creature. And among other things, some Urválek also got in with me, so we always wondered if he was related to this prosecutor, but it's quite possible."