Jan Kyncl

"In the evening I called together my friends who were on the expedition. I said to them, 'Guys, we have to demonstrate, come on, let's get the five-pointed star off the town hall!' We were already busy. There was already shooting in the square, the tank came into the arcade. So we climbed up, Moulis was still there, he was also helping us with the expedition. He gave us the keys to the attic. We got to the attic and climbed up to the upper balcony. And then we went up to this little tower on the ladder and we went through the windows. With Karl Heisig, but I should point out that there are no important names because we did it as a team. Somebody had to belay, hand things, tools and so on. Karl Heisig and I went up that tower and it was not nice. There were a lot of people down there, machine guns pointed at us, at least we had that feeling. Karl says, 'They're going to miss anyway.' I said, 'Karl, stop it. Rather look to the other side. The Russians were all around the town hall."

"In the morning we were awakened by a phone call that Prague was occupied by Russians, that planes were landing. We heard planes flying over us. And Jirka said, 'Honza, we can't sit at home. Come on, let's go to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, let them explain it to us.' There were already a lot of people there and it was already surrounded by Russians or Warsaw Pact. There was a soldier standing there with a machine gun. And some young guy says, 'That's my Party Central Committee, let me in!' He said, 'Stop!' He went further in that direction and they shot him in front of me. Now a doctor bent down and we said, 'It's the doctor, he needs treatment!' They didn't treat him."