I'm Convinced The Beatles Are Partly Responsible

I Lived Long Enough In A Society Where Freedom Of Speech Was Nonexistent, And I Know What Kind Of Misery That Creates - Starting With The Fact That Life Becomes Very Boring For People Who Just Try To Survive, And Are Quiet, And Try Not To Buck The System. And, Of Course, It Can Be Devastating For People Who Try To Speak Against It.

Well, Listen, You Know, The Czech Saying Is, You Know, When You Are Drowning You Are Grabbing Even A Little Twig. That's What All Czechs Were Doing, Grabbing For... With The Hope For This Little Twig.

The Czech Movies, The Quality Movies, Are Trying To Show The Life In The Country As It Is, In An Entertaining Way, While In America, The Majority Of Movies Are Wonderful Fairy Tales.

So I Left With Jean Claude And Went To Paris, So When The Russians Came To Prague, I Was In Paris.

Because If You Lived, As I Did, Several Years Under Nazi Totalitarianism, And Then 20 Years In Communist Totalitarianism, You Would Certainly Realize How Precious Freedom Is, And How Easy It Is To Lose Your Freedom.