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When we came out of the toy railway restaurant on the Wenceslas Square, Anya ran away somewhere, and we were left alone with Eva. We wanted to take a leisurely walk to the Old Town, but first I had to show her monuments to Palach and Zajíc.

On our way home I was telling the story of Prague Spring and the Soviet tanks in Prague. As a 7 year old, she needed clear explanations; first and foremost I had to make her understand the nature of the events and then tell what happened. The point at issue was the reason for the invasion, and inevitably we had to touch upon the specifics of the Russian identity. Eva heard me out very carefully. She said:

“You say bad things about your own people. This is a minus. But you tell the truth. This is a plus. A book about this has to be written.”