Petr Fusek

"I went to the army in Žatec, to the air defence, I did half a year of training at the command post of the then Warsaw Pact air defence. They came to me, only after five months did they find out that I simply couldn't be there, that I had to get out. I and one other colleague, who trampled on the image of Husák, were kicked out of there."

"It was just an ordinary Friday night party at Družba, or Saturday night, I don't remember exactly what day it was, which for some reason the organizers interrupted on the orders of someone, I don't know who, and I don't know the reason either. But simply here, this interruption provoked the reaction that somehow a parade was formed, which went from Družba down what was then Revoluční Street towards the centre, shouting 'We want freedom!' It was a reaction to this quite incomprehensible thing. And that was the end of it. There were some police cars. I think one was kind of rare, so they just drove away. And then the police took a very intense interest in it, probably because it was in '77 after the signing of the Charter, but as I say, it had absolutely nothing to do with anything. This was a normal, spontaneous event that came about because they interrupted the entertainment for unknown reasons. I don't know whether somebody did something there or not, some kind of riot, but I don't think so, because then when I was on the street there was no talk of anything like that at all. If somebody had broken something or done anything there, I think they would have asked about it."