Petr Rosmanik

"There was a murder of an entire family in a village near Olomouc - two young children and a mother. A Russian, now I don't know if he was an ensign or even an officer, but he was a professional soldier, he was not an enlisted man, broke into the house and was surprised by the mother and her two children, and he beat them to death with a hammer. Of course we found him, we substantiated it, he was sentenced to death, but whether it was carried out or not carried out, I don't know. We sort of heard that he wasn't sentenced at all, that once he was transferred somewhere, they simply shot him in the back of the head and that was the end of it."

"I had to join the Communist Party, but by then I was already in the prosecutor's office. About two years after I got there, I was offered candidacy. I didn't really care for it because I wasn't interested in any meetings and I had never been interested in politics until then. There weren't even any political parties back then, so why care about that. Then I was told that I didn't have to join the Communist Party, but if I didn't join, I couldn't serve in the military prosecutor's office."

"After that, when I was already in the Military Music School, I dropped my leisure activities and I just had to study, so I learned very well. I wasn't distracted there anymore, plus I was forced to because if you wanted to get out, you had to have good academic results. The walkout was twice a week because there was still work on Saturdays. There were Wednesdays and Sundays, for example, and if you wanted to gou out, you really had to have good grades. Otherwise, the company commander would tell you, 'Okay, you'll go, but only after 7 p.m., because by then you'll self-study to improve the bad grade you got during the week.'"