In one minute twelve

Memoirs of a Czech engineer on life in the turbulent 20th century. What did he experience? Education under Hitler and Stalin. American tanks in Hradec Králové on 7 May 1945 and its liberation. How the comrades dealt with scouting. The Prague Majáles student festival. Designing industrial buildings during the socialist era. The rapid changes in Italy. Life in Cuba: socialism or death! The end of totalitarianism in the Czech lands. The nineties in Austria: surprisingly similar crimes and perpetrators, but different outcomes. He also remembers his father, a legionary, an officer in the interwar Czechoslovak army, and a participant in the anti-Nazi resistance, and his colleagues, who often had very tragic fates after 1938 and 1948, which leads him to a number of interesting historical reflections not only on our history.