Roman Skamene

"Every now and then [the debt colelctors] came there or they took money from the cashier, perhaps 10 or 15 thousand, he took it and came again in two days, so they were slowly destroying us. They didn't even count it. They took out the money, they ordered some meals. There was nothing I could do. They were drinking there. Or they brought whores there. This is how they were slowly hurting me and destroying me. That was every now and then, maybe every other day. When they wanted, they came to have a meal and collect some money.“

"We got into such problems that we did not have enough money to run a restaurant, to buy food. It was already in a terrible state, we didn't have money. One such a fake friend said to mi: I have a friend over there, he will lend you money. I didn't want to go to the moneylenders, but we were in a very bad situation, I thought we would pay for it in a few months. We saved ourselves, but then we couldn't pay to the bank and to the moneylenders. It didn't work somehow. We borrowed 200 000 CZK, it's not really much, nowadays, at that time it was more. And we couldn't pay it back. It went on and on. One of the moneylenders was suspicious to me from the beginning, they were two and they were such idiots. Twenty-two years old, jackets, jeans, they both drove a Bimer, they already had a mobile phone in their car. I said to myself, 'Jesus Christ, where did I get?' Apparently, they had some money, it could have been money changers. They sold Bimers. So, you can imagine selling Bavarians at the age of 22. And they both had long guns. I thought, 'Where did I get?', but a step back was not possible. I couldn't pay for it. The bank was urging me to pay. The loan was getting bigger, the percentages were rising. From 200 000 CZK it was suddenly 900 000 CZK and the end in half a year.