He was born in 1934. When he was 9,5 years old, he had to serve for farmers at farms. He slept on heaps of straw with cattle in barns. When he was small, poverty of people was immense and people couldn’t afford to buy shoes. He had another 9 siblings. He remembers his father enlisting during the Second World War. He still recalls guerrillas who he saw in the course of the Second World War. He worked as a truck driver. During socialisms, he drove to the east as well as to the west. He remembers when StB (Secret police during a communistic era spying on ordinary people under the pretext of them performing subversive actions,) wanted reports from him. The content of the reports was what he saw in the west, who he contacted, who contacted him and so on. Once he drove to Ukraine and then drove to Paris straight away. The economic difference was stupendous at that time. It was almost not believable. He usually communicated in German in the west. Being a driver in the west enabled him to have a privileged position and a chance to buy goods in Tuzex (a shop with western products in eastern bloc countries). It was only possible to buy the western goods either for foreign currencies or bony (Bony – a special king of a currency voucher used for buying the western goods.)
Witness of history of 20th century.
