Václav Žufan

“For me, there was a demonstration where ten of us went and packed all of us. They packed us back home, not that they packed us there. I just got the bombs there, but again so no one could see it. But I immediately went to complain. Two state security policemen went towards me and punched me in my stomach, and in the face, then they went on, just like that. They picked up Placák and took him somewhere in the woods.”

“Sometime in the 1989 prior to the anniversary of August, I was invited again for interrogation to Barťák. No, they didn't invite me, they actually came to work for me and took me to Barťák. There they gave me signed the statement that the week before that [anniversary of the August invasion, note. ed.] I will disappear from Prague. I went to Klatovy thinking that it will be quiet. And they came for me in Klatovy. So the Klatovy state security took me to the interrogation, but they were the types of uncles. They knew my dad. I asked them what I was actually picked up for. Now he took a paper out of his pocket, so he read to me according to this and this paragraph that in four days I would be making disturbances on Wenceslas Square. I looked at him in amazement… fair enough. They wanted to take me to custody. They gave me handcuffs and brought me to the car, where they took my handcuffs off again and gave me an apple, total comfort. I was taken to Ostrov nad Ohří, Bory did not take me in. I was there for two days. And again those Klatovy uncles came for me. They came to a cell in Vitman's and arrested me in a cell. I haven't even been released yet and I was arrested in the cell because forty-eight hours had passed and I was arrested in the cell and taken me to Pankrac.”