Hynek Krátký

"Now we went and we went to the shopping centre Máj and I thought to myself... It was Saturday, not Friday, Friday was in Prague then, so it was not completely abnormal, but it was weird - there was not a single soul outside, not one. So we went with Jirka Weiner and we went on the right side. We came around that corner or we were exactly approaching that corner and I know we were normally surprised, because suddenly a heavy gunman with a white helmet ran out from behind the corner, if you know it from the pictures, with a baton and another behind him, behind him the third one and suddenly where there was nothing, they suddenly ran right in front of us and started to close the whole road there. And they left us, there were two of us. We passed and we saw in Spálená that all the cars we had seen on the embankment before were straightened up and out of them... and that there were hundreds of police officers or it seemed to us that there were many of them. We said to ourselves, "Yeah, they closed it off, like we're not on the other side."

"I came there, there were two men in civilian clothes, not a uniform. Today I already know that it was the state security, I didn't know until then what it was, that it worked at all. And now they sat me down and the first asked me a question that really got me: 'So, Comrade Krátký, do you know why you're here?' - How would I know? I don't know.‘ - ,So tell us what happened on the May 8 before the holidays.‘ - , On May 8? May 8 indeed... Yeah, we had a goodbye at school, the last ringing.' - 'Well, just say it. 'And now I was like,' Oh my. 'It was for me, a nineteen-year-old boy... it was a real shock to me, so I don't remember much. I just know that they played me the tactics I was aware of since then; one of them was the good and the other the bad cop. And it was very annoying, because it took about three hours, the interrogation, and I came from there and I was pretty broken, not that I would physically collapse, but I thought, I can't trust anyone now."

"So I got on an intercity bus on Hradčanská, which went to Lány. The bus was packed, so I thought, 'It's good it's stuffed, but it's just one bus?' The bus was crowded and I was standing behind a man. I was there alone and they obviously knew and had fun with each other. And only later did I realize that the man sitting in front of me was Vaclav Havel and that the people around me were chartists. So we came to Lány, we got out and I thought, 'You, really only one bus, I thought there would be crowds of people.' So I felt embarrassed and I went with those people and now gradually it came to me... And people came there by car, but they took pictures of us and filmed us. Now I suddenly thought, 'Yeah, but now I'm in that crowd again.' So I went with the crowd and I thought, 'So what? After all, I'm going to celebrate or commemorate the first president. That's not so bad."