FROM DIKOBRAZ NO. 21 -- 23 MAY 1968
Josef Pavel, Minister: "What keeps growing here?" Pavel was the
popular Minister of the Interior during the Prague Spring. The
"signs" in his garden all refer to government monitoring of private
communications: "When will censorship of telegrams cease?", "What
about the jamming [of foreign radio broadcasts]?" "Bugging
continues," "Invisible ears and eyes," "May I speak to comrade
Bretschneider?" -- a reference to Bretschneider, the imperial secret
policeman in Jaroslav Hasek's classic novel The Good Soldier Svejk,
who hangs around taverns trying to provoke patrons into making
treasonous statements against the Austro-Hungarian Emperor.