I've a little more to add to my last letter, if you'll indulge me. So yes, they did settle into socialist gloom, but did not go so freely into that twilight. My Grandmother was fired from state television for her participation in the pirate broadcasts, as were a few of her colleagues.
She was going through some old papers yesterday and came across her termination letter. She read it to me, standing by my dad's tank-view window. The letter was to inform her that she was to be terminated immediately for uncritically portraying a political vision not in harmony with the new socialist reality. She had presented and encouraged other generally contemptible thoughts and that were simply not in line with the new mandate of state television and politics, which therefore rendered her an unsuitable member of TV team CSSR (Ceskoslovenska Socialisticka Republicka).
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