PhDr. Ilja Šedo

"I used to go to work by taking the tram till Hvězda [cinema] and then I walked across the park. Nowadays there is a body of water, but back then there was nothing there. But there were steps that I think are still there today. To get to work I had to walk past Parkán, because our workplace was in a brewery museum. So that was probably the shortest way. As I was going up the steps, I saw two guys standing there. That's when I got a little anxious. I kept walking. I climbed the stairs and wanted to go to the sidewalk. One of them came up to me and introduced himself and said I'd go with them. They had a typical black Volga. They put me in the car and drove me to Bory [prison]. There they just put me in a cell in one of the wings. They left me there alone for a couple of hours and then the interrogations started. The first interrogation lasted maybe twelve hours. I think they picked me up after six in the morning and let me out after seven o'clock or so. I know it was dark when I got home."

"It could have been around ten o'clock. Behind Kasejovice, in the woods, there was a small company, where the locals were doing something, but I don't know what. But suddenly we saw all the employees running across the field back to Kasejovice. We thought, 'Oh God, what is happening? Is there a fire somewhere or something?' We still didn't know anything. It took about an hour, but suddenly we saw tanks coming across the field. We were just watching them like crazy and thinking: 'What are they doing here? There's no exercise'."