"I've had a chance to get far in life." "I've sent other people to schools and universities..." "Take, for example, my former colleagues." "They are heads of ministerial departments or work for foreign trade co-operative companies." "Some of them are presidents of whole companies." "Whereas I Ieft and never wanted to come back." "BrickIayer" "I worked for the Warsaw building Enterprise." "I worked on the national Bank of poland." "That's when the District Party Committee sent me to a school for Party Youth Organization activists in Turczynek." "I couId have said 'no', because an order is one thing and your life's another." "But I agreed in the end." "How did I get involved in the Party?" "My father was an old Party member, and so was my mother." "Under the German occupation we hid weapons in our flat." "people like Janek Krasicki were sworn in our flat." "in the Mokotow district after 1932." " How many spoons?" " Three." "I was working as a bricklayer, my wife was a warehousewoman." "We spent time in the club room." "We even put on small productions." "At that time we were doing a sketch by Checkov." "I was the husband and my wife was playing the wife." "And that's how our marriage came about." "At the school in Turczynek young people were suffused with that theory." "They thought they'd make a revolution only if they went to work." "But when you tried to put theory into practice you realized things were a bit different." "It was disappointing that our young people were not as brilliant as they'd seemed." "You had to know how to work them." "After Turczynek I was sent to Warsaw." "I was made chairman of the Ochota District Board plenum." "At that time you might have thought I was a fanatic." "But I believed that what I was doing and what I'd learned and experienced was the only right way forward." "I believed that I was building something for my generation." "Let us celebrate the 1st of May." "Let us raise our standards, our national standards." "Let there be peace among all nations!" "Let us celebrate the 1st of May!" "This year, for the first time, we are celebrating with the Warsaw railway junction employees!" "You look beautiful." "When you go past the podium like that the impact will be huge." " How are you?" " Not bad..." "Have you got a ..." "We've all been waiting for you, and you're late." "I needed to get my family ready." "In the early 50s there was a campaign against what was called hooIiganism." "Every period has its own jargon." "In those days 'hooIigan' was one of those terms." "Men with long hair were immediately classed as enemies." "That's when the antagonisms between those people and the Party Youth Organization activists started." "That was completely unnecessary." ""With atomic energy new Poland is emerging"." "This is motto of the Institute of Nuclear Research workers." "hopefully it won't rain..." "It won't." "The weather's been booked for today." "There was a period when Coca cola was your enemy because it was part of the western lifestyle." "But now, they're producing it." "There are slogans everywhere" ""Drink Coca cola." "It's good for you", etc." "My daughter drinks gallons of it." "She loves it." "I drank it once, thank you." "I'd rather stick to soda water." "We welcome the youth of the Wola district and their political, administrative and party leaders." "What terrified me most in my first jobs was having to visit schools and face young people." "although I was 22 then and I'd been around for a bit," "I was scared of discussing history." "There had been no school during the occupation." "Try talking to me about those subjects..." "I'm a laughing stock." "Even when someone made a wrong decision, even slightly wrong, they'd get someone to back them up so that they wouIn't lose authority." "For exampIe, when a manager dismissed a worker for misconduct or generating losses, etc.," "and the organization would veto it only because the person was in the youth organization." "That was completely wrong and we're still dealing with the consequences." "I was promoted to vice-president of the organizational Department of the Party Youth Organization Board," "and after four months, to personnel manager of the Warsaw board." "You had to dismiss people or penalize them." "That's when, whether you wanted it or not, you had to bring up family issues such as that someone had family abroad or relatives who were enemies of the cause." "And that's what you had to say to them." "And that's when you became less of an activist and more of an official." "It was merely a desk job." "There was no air, you couldn't get enough of the windows open." "You are requested to take the TO THE PEOPLE FROM THE PEOPLE board to Swietokrzyska Street." "The Warsaw workers lead the construction of socialism." "Their factories will contribute 30 billion to the bank of Poland." "Straighten rows, please." "Spread columns." "Wider spaces between rows, please." "It's too dense in there." "Widen distances between rows..." "Now slowly spread the columns..." "We'II see how it turns out..." "could do with a cold drink afterwards." "It's high time they made a move on." "In 1956, everything suddenly tumbled down." "It hurt you a bit." "You thought, what next?" "In 1956," "I asked permission to move to production work." "So, I went back to where I'd come from." "Why can't people see that someone's doing a bad job, I don't know." "Is this some sort of a method... or is it simply short-sightedness." "only when a growth becomes malignant do they remove it." "There's no preventive action." "Best wishes to our brave..." "beautiful... the most beautiful women..." "our Rosas Luxemburg." "We wish you all the best." "The song about the Six-year plan" ""We will build new poland"," ""Our beloved country", "The song of the tractor drivers"," ""Tram nr 18"..." "I've forgotten a few titles." "We sing them sometimes, on Sundays when we're still in bed, or in the evenings." "My daughter took my song-book." "There used to be a Youth Organization edition." "She took it, she's copying it at the moment." "Let her remember it, listen and read about it, as long as she doesn't have to go through it herself." "That's my wife's goal." "There is no end to the flood of flowers." "There's a sea of flowers in front of the tribune." "Our brilliant Warsaw youth and banners" "WE ARE multiplying THE CROP OF OUR FATHERS' WORK, and THERE is POWER in unity..." "If you've ever tried laying bricks you must have come to like it." "Because it's like playing with building blocks." "You put one on top of another and something emerges." "In the summer, the smell of lime and fresh air..." "It's like weight off your souIders." "You walk around and you recognize the places you've worked in." "You remember how you used to stand on a site, and how it all started." "It's tangible." "You can't fall to see it when you walk past." "You can come and touch it." "There's your wall..." "That's the bit you did." "It feels feel good to know that you didn't waste your life." "Long live the heroic working class of Warsaw!" "Jozef MaIesa is 45 years old and lives in Warsaw."