Adolf Lisý

“Airplanes were flying all the time throughout the night and so we thought that there would be some army exercise or something like that. We noticed something on the hill where there is the road which passes through Plaňany and toward Prague. The road did not bypass Plaňany at that time, but cars passed through the main square. And they landed with a helicopter up there on that hill. We said that we would go there and see what was happening. We climbed up on the hill and they flew away and they left one poor guy there and his task was to point to the tanks in which direction to go. The tanks were heading for Prague, and those who were driving them were Russians. And we saw this poor chap in rugged clothes. It was in summer. He had this long army coat. They tore it off for him at the bottom, because it was probably too long. We started talking to him, asking him what he was doing there and so on. We had some bottles of beer and so we offered him beer: ‘Here is a beer for you.’ He accepted, and he drank two beers and he was stoned. And those ‘fighters’ from Plaňany came there, and they already knew what was happening. They cursed all of us, telling us that we were collaborationists because we were talking with that Russian soldier. But he did not have a clue where he was. I think that most of them didn’t have any idea where they were... When we realized what was going on, we then changed the signboards and direction signs for them a little. We told them to go toward Zalešany. It was quite funny. The road has many serpentine curves, and they were not able to turn with those tanks in the serpentines. That was good, well, we had a laugh about it.”

“I found something for myself in all positions. A party of moderate progress, so to speak, within the legal boundaries. Like the signing of the anti-Charter. It had to be done at all schools. They came to me and wanted me to sign it for them. I said: ‘Why would I sign anything for you? Let me read it first.’ - ‘No, we don’t have the text.’ I told them: ‘Go to hell then. I will not sign a paper declaring that I oppose something if I don’t even know what it is that I should oppose.’ Then they came to me one more time and I told them the same thing and then they have not come anymore. And nothing happened, it was fine.”