Rather, he has placed the sign in the window to demonstrate his symbolic loyalty to the regime, knowing that if he does not do so, there could be trouble. He won’t go to prison or lose his job. But “he could be reproached for not having the proper decoration in his window; someone might even accuse him of disloyalty.” He does it, Havel writes, “because these things must be done if one is to get along in life.”
