Pavel Pukyš

„Přišla advokátka ex offo. ‚No pane Pukyš tady máte přečin příživnictví 7C, 11C, narušení pětiletky, ohrožení výroby plánu závodu.‘ Že jsem ohrozil výrobu v ČKD. Říkám: ‚Jasné, ale já žádnou příživu nemám. Já jsem prodal muziku, desky, to, to, to za čtyřicet tisíc. Ona: ‚Komu jste to prodal?‘ A já jsem si nemohl vzpomenout, jak se lidi znali přezdívkami. Říkám: ‚No Židovi.‘ Ona: ‚Židovi, jakýmu Židovi?‘ Říkám: ‚Já nevím příjmení.‘ Jako Olda Malina. Ona: ‚Tak si vzpomeňte, jak se jmenuje příjmením. Dostanete jinak tři roky.‘ A hned šla pryč. Jí to bylo jedno. Oni na tebe kašlali. Já jsem si fakt týden před soudem na to vzpomněl. A jak si chceš na něco vzpomenou, tak to nejde, to zná každej. Sedím tam a říkám si, jaký má příjmení, že za to dostanu tři roky. Pak najednou Malina. S Oldou jsme si to domlouvali na Žofíně v hospodě a myslím, že jsme ještě hulili trávu a chlastali. Teď jsem měl strach, že on bude mít potíže, že si to nebude pamatovat, když jsme pili, že si ode mě koupil za 40 tisíc magnetofon, desky, zesilovač, to, to, to. Tak jsem to řekl advokátce a si to fakt pamatoval. Takže mi dali jen přečin příživnictví. On mně vlastně pokryl ten rok. Tak mi dali dostačující trest. Byl jsem tam skoro tři měsíce a dostal jsem tři měsíce na rok podmínku.“

“When I went to the first recruitment in Šumperk, they told me straight away that my brother is a professional soldier. I told them what the hell they´re talking about, that I hate it and won’t go anywhere. ,You must!‘ I said I won´t go anywhere, he stood up and left. I went to the psychiatric and one in Prague helped me so that I didn’t stay in the hall, but then she emigrated. So I actively had to visit the mad house. There I got to know many other people´s fates and probably most of them better folks than outside. Then I was in the department twenty-six, which was the second worse in the republic. I met so many interesting or unhappy fates. I was kind of a life-threatening situation, all monitored by cameras. By mistake there was a guy from Mohelnice, Pagáč, who I knew from outside. I told him not to say he knew me, as we were constantly monitored. When someone disappeared or was dead, no one cared. I was a really rough place. In 1968 there was a director, who put up an American flag and ever since it was all weird.”

“At the hostel in Černý Most I played my cassette recorder real loud and on the second day they kicked me out. They moved me to Hrdlořezy, where no one wanted to stay, as there were all drunks. I liked it there. A kind of a rough underground. We were coming in through a window. I woke up at ten and went to the factory. Everyone was just hanging around, the whole lot of the madmen. I came in calm and began to work on something. My buddy was all right, he stopped going through porn magazines and said: ,Pavel, they will soon lock you up with this attendance of yours.‘ I had a three year contract, to pay for the training. They kept saying they don’t want me there, so they transferred me to another group. They said I missed several hours. I said: ,How come? I actually come as usual.‘ There was trouble with time clock. They had about three hundreds. I was combining my work with psychiatrics. Why didn’t I stamp the time clock? I was going to the blacksmiths where they were giving a ten degree beer for free and otherwise it cost seventy halers. I began at ten and had a beer and then just walked away. A week later they were changing colours of the time clock. They were all blue and I had white so I could find it.”

“I used to go to a pub, where similar types were gathering. A kind of a good waste. At that time punk was starting there. U Fleků was our base at a certain time. We were walking on tables there. The Bavarians are playing harmonica there today. Nearby there is a pub U Zpěvců behind the National theatre, Kampa was the tops – Klamovka. I was having a party there the whole time and in a half a year they caught me. And before they caught me, I was drinking with the Jew, Olda Morgenstern, in Žofín. We were both drunk and probably also stoned and I told him:,Listen, I need to cover food.‘ I was expecting they´d catch me soon. So I said: ,You bought an apparatus, reel tape recorder, board and some books for about forty thousand.‘ I needed about forty grand a year. ‚Sure, I will give it to you.´”