Radim Jauker

"We were in that student movement and our task - those who were from the countryside like me - was then to go to that countryside and explain and promote that revolution, the strike. So we then distributed various leaflets, there were no electronic media then, so the only media were printed papers. We stuffed it into our bags and backpacks and it was said that they were checking the trains and that they were catching the people there. So we hitchhiked to escape it. We stopped our car, we went to Budějovice in southern Bohemia, we took the posters and the material there. And with that chauffeur, that driver, we talked about that, that politics. He listened, inquired and just asked a lot of questions. And I then said: 'You know, sir, the secret police are the worst, we hate them.' And he stopped and said: 'Just so you guys know, I'm the secret police. Show me your identity cards!' So we hitchhiked a secret police. So he stopped us, we stiffened, he checked us, thought and said: 'Guys, we from the thirteenth ward are with you, we are with you.' So it was absurd that the estebák said: 'Guys, I believe you, go, I'll bring you the posters there and we're going to Budějovice.' So the estebák didn't do anything, he basically change his attitude right in the car. And that was such an absurd moment of the way it happened at that time that even the biggest communists were suddenly the biggest revolutionaries. So even the estebák didn't take any action against us.''