My year 1979

We all experienced 1979 differently, although life did not offer the Czechs too many possibilities. The communists were said to be here forever, and people accepted that. They got used to many of the "signs of socialism", they didn't find it strange that they were bribed, that many things were not available and that there were queues for beef and for Hrabal. Although the nation was living in a kind of internal mental emigration, we were still able to rejoice, laugh, drink and then sober up.