Jana Marková

"The Czechoslovak People's Party, unlike the socialist parties, which build more or less on a Marxist world view, builds and is building on a Christian world view. The Christian doctrine of love of one's neighbour was revealed two thousand years ago, but how much older is the doctrine of force being superior to law, of violence being justified by success and natural barbarism, how much older is despotism, tyranny and autocracy. The dictators who invoke progress and revolution against us are leading mankind far away into the darkness of paganism, into the bloody ages of autocracy. Youth and progress are on the side of Christianity, not on the side of those who lean on the lowest instincts of humanity."

"They were calling the youth to go like into the streets and help the revolution, yeah? And I, like a right idiot, with a friend, a daughter from the professor's family, with Evika, we were the same age, and a young man also joined us, his name was Karlovsky, and his brother was a Czechoslovak officer, he was in charge of an illegal group during the whole war, and during the revolution he joined the radio, where they shot off his ear. He was arrested twice by his comrades, until he got angry and emigrated. Yeah, that's so out of line. So with his younger brother, he was about three years older than you and me. We were less than fifteen and he was maybe seventeen and a half. We went to help Prague. They were calling the university at the time, at the time... I don't know where we were supposed to meet, but we went towards Újezd, down the main street. We came to the place where Petrin Hill is, where the statues and the cable car are now. On the right-hand side there are low barracks, now it's some kind of Charles IV hotel. The low huts were already there then. And we were looking around and suddenly they started shooting from the Petrin Hill. There was a shop right in front of us, where a lady was pulling down this metal shutter, and suddenly there were holes in it. She pulled it up, dragged us in and shut it. So we heroically went to defend Prague."