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who sentenced me. Now he was a chairman of the Senate that was supposed to rehabilitate
me. So I told myself, “That’s it.” He called me to the coffee table and asked me, “Do you know
what happened in Chile?” I said, “Sure, there was a plot. Pinotchet started a revolution.“ Then
he said, “You see, then you can not be rehabilitated then.” So because Pinotchet started a rebellion
in Chile, they could not rehabilitate me. So I asked, “What does Chile have to do with
that?” He answered, “Well we are in the same camp.” So I wasn’t rehabilitated.
I was rehabilitated after 1989. I wrote another application and in a week I had a statement
that I was rehabilitated.
What do you think about the moral rehabilitation? Do political prisoners get enough attention?
You know I don’t support any glorification of people. I only think the biggest satisfaction
would be if the Bolsheviks would say they were sorry. When the political prisoners already
accused someone it should be ran to the end. The person doesn’t have to go to prison, these
people are also so old. The nation should know what really happened. I’m not going for someone’s
throat, but there were cases when people were executed in monster processes. Even the
surviving relatives of the executed never received any compensation. Money can not make
up for their loss. No one cares about these people today, although they live in deep poverty.
Communists just laugh and they are putting their hands up in government whether someone
should be compensated or they should be given back their property in which they stole from
them in the first place. What kind of law is that? This is the time we live in and this is the law
and we who are old can’t do anything about it. It’s a pity we are not twenty years younger.
Thank you very much for the interview.
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