Emil Adamčík

“Just a little while I was free and the Russians were here already, I got back to prison again. Fortunately, their commander was somehow a bit ˈlenientˈ and he said: 'Watch out for our chief as he is an old Stalinist. Don't talk like that…' and I tell you, the members had to use some power – 100 crowns fee and for worn out tires another 100 crowns. Then they let me go. That's why I say many times that a man can be stupid, but he must be lucky.”

“I felt a great pressure. When one wanted to apply for parole, 'he had to do something'. And that 'something' was another word for 'telling on others'. No one could ever convince me to do that. They gave me a green band to mark me as a runaway. So each guard that saw me knew, he was supposed to watch out, for allegedly I could have broken out. But otherwise, I tried to survive. In the morning I always looked out of the window: Did the sun rise up? It did. Fine. And in the evening I would say: Did the sun set? Then everything is all right.”