Everything became black and white with signing of Charter 77, says cleric Tomáš Bísek

Protestant cleric Tomáš Bísek was forced to leave Czechoslovakia in the
1980s for his dissident activities and spent over a decade ministering in
Scotland. His family had been active members of the Evangelical Church of
Czech Brethren and – despite the communist regime – he himself had
eventually become a clergyman in a small town in the Bohemian Moravian
Highlands. However, his life became increasingly difficult after he and his
wife signed the Charter 77 protest document. I began the first half of a
two-part interview by asking the now retired Mr. Bísek – who was born in
1939 – what he recalled of WWII.

Published: 
Monday, November 30, 2015