The darkest place is under the candlestick

Rudolf Mrázek was a member of the Scout resistance group SODAN, which had its HQ in Křenovice. Its members fought against the injustice perpetrated by the communist regime. Rudolf Mrázek remembers that they also printed pamphlets for various anniversaries, which they then distributed in public places. In line with = the saying, “the darkest place is under the candlestick,” they first based their operations in the clubhouse of the Czechoslovakian Youth Union in Křenovice. “That’s another jolly thing. There was a youth union in Křenovice, but none of us were its members. None of us had the badge. There weren’t any unionist there at all. We just had the keys to the clubhouse and we elected ourselves into the committee and plotted our mischief from there. At the trial they reproached us terribly that we wrote recommendations for university in the name of the union. We did that for several years at the grammar school. We wrote recommendations from the union: ‘We would need more comrades like him.’ We just had the stamp and we were functionaries of the youth union, but we weren’t members. In this way we controlled the youth union," he recalled.