Zdeněk Prokop

"The gentleman from that office came, and one by one from that class, boys and girls, he took to the table separately and said, 'So what would you like to do, you're finishing school now, so what would you like to be?' And I told him when it was my turn: 'I would like to be an airplane pilot.' He looked at me and said, 'Well, you're still too young for that.' And I told him, 'And what if I went to a pilot military school, just like a cadet?" And he said, 'No, we need people to produce. And what do you like about those planes so much? 'And I told him,' Well, they're machines like that. ' So look, we'll make you a locksmith. You will go to the factory, and since it is here in Holešovice, you will go here to Elektrosignál, here in Holešovice. ‘And there was nothing left for me but to proceed."

"We approached them and waved those flags. And then someone gave the command to the soldiers, and they started firing at this group of students. And then I learned, I don't know from whom, that the commander gave the command to fire warning into the air. It flew mostly across the Vltava, to the winter stadium. But one of those idiot soldiers didn't raise it high enough and shot one of our boys. He fell to the ground. So we ran to him, those who dared, not me. But some of the boys ran and dragged him away, all trying to run to the railing by the river. The boys who dragged him soaked the Czechoslovak flag in his blood, and the soldiers started firing again, and the more active ones, who became some kind of leader of this group, said, 'That's terrible, come and protest, they're going to shoot us here. Come on, let's go to Vysočany and call on the workers to strike.´”