RNDr. Josef Kubát

"I remember like it was today that I turned on the radio, I turned on the TV, the information was terribly fragmented. Now it was said, that they would not attack them when they came against them with batons and each one had a cobblestone in his hand. And so on. This is how we were informed. Of course, there was nothing true about it. That was Friday. On Saturday afternoon, our graduates called me asking if I knew what happened in Prague. I said that I know a little bit. What has been aired so far, which has really been close to nothing. In addition, our graduate and our graduate told me that they would be in Pardubice on Sunday and that they would like to meet me. So I met with them on Sunday morning, the 19th. Therefore, they informed me how it was, what it was, and so on. And that they will come to see the grammar school on the twentieth."

"So I said about ten to fifteen sentences there. I introduced myself and said that some probably already know that we went at half past twelve to support the university students in their position, that I take the entire event as my personal responsibility. That this was how I challenged the students, who wanted to go voluntarily; and that was how I challenged the lecturers who also wanted to go voluntarily and that I will carry the can, as they say. That in principle I do not agree with what happened, and that I agree with the demands of the university students, and that we cannot tell lies and that we will be retaliated against and so on and so forth. And, that it was a peaceful demonstration, that nothing happened anywhere and that now we are back again and that we will continue teaching from tomorrow. And strangely enough, I'm not saying it was spontaneous, but quite a lot of people applauded me like that."