Zbyněk Šolc

"We learned from our neighbors that something was happening in Liberec, of course we didn't know what it was about. But we didn't go to Liberec, because we learned that there is something in Jablonec as well. So we went in front of the town hall, where we listened to Libuška Hájková as she spoke into the megaphone, she started to read a statement, and at the beginning the anthem was sung. Well, since she was talking into the megaphone, it wasn't very easy to understand her, so my friend Tomáš Černý and I decided to go to my garage. We took out the disco equipment, brought it in front of the town hall, put it on its side like that, and gave Libuška a microphone so that she could be better heard."

"Like every child, we were just running around outside and of course we learned that our republic was occupied, that tanks had arrived. Mom was crying. It must not have been pleasant for those people. As children, we took it more like a game. My brother and I were in the garden, we had wooden rifles and we were waiting for the Russian tanks to arrive, because it was said that they would go through Jablonec. But that didn't happen at all, because people bent the signs or the direction indicators pointing to Jablonec. They got somewhere near Desná or Tanvald, so although we kept waiting, we did not make it."