Antonín Chloupek

"When I woke up in the morning on 21 August, I wondered about a strange noise from the street. There were usual noise from the public transport, as trams, usual trafiic, people going to work. There was a strange kind of silence. No traffic means running, not even personal vehicles, just people walking past. When I looked out from my window, I was a growing cueue in from of the grocery store as people began to fear the war is coming and wanted to get more stock. And as I already said, no traffic was passing in the street so there was an unusual sound from the street. And I actually figured it out from the radio, because after getting up I turned it on and they were announcing that the Warsaw pact armies accupy our republic."

"With my friend were coming from the courses that did not always take place in Prague, those regarded the art photography and returning to Prague and two girls tried to hijack us. So we took them in our car. Well and they got off after a while and we just chatted casually and told them that if they ever came to Prague they could of course come visit us. Well we did not really think that would eve happen. But those girls were nurses from the child care spa called Lázně svaté Kateřiny, that was near Počátky. And right that summer the all-republic sports games called spartakiáda was organised and those two nurses we gave a lift to, they came to Prague with the children they took care of to participate in the event. So they used the number we gave them and called us they actually came to Prague and we could meet. And so it happened that I fell in love with one of those girls and finally decided to get married later."