Milan Štryncl

“It woke me up at about four o'clock, boom, boom, boom. We lived in Pavlovice na Borovém vrchu, we turned on the radio and they said that there was an invasion of Soviet troops. So I said that I was going to see work, assembly plants, that was in Rybníček. So I walked all the way along what was then General Svoboda avenue past Zhořelecká street and tanks were driving there. That was a column of tanks that was going. When I got down to Frýdlantská street, it was already jammed there, because as they turned past the town hall in 5. května street, there was something there. I slowly passed them, I had already heard some shooting. I came to the square, it was buzzing, there was scaffolding at the town hall, so the guys were throwing something there. Sometimes they shot something into the air. So I came down there, some were already there before six o'clock and Jindra Kuliš came there, he lived opposite the assembly plants. He was not in the military and he was an excellent designer. He came and asked, so we told him that the tanks were driving along General Svoboda Avenue and continuing on to Prague. He had never seen them and said he would go and have a look. I said that there was a roar and there were occasional shots, and they were already starting to report that someone had been injured. He left, we were complaining in the projection center, what kind of crap is this and if someone is going to protect us or if we should defend ourselves. We listened to the radio where they said to keep calm. And suddenly we heard that Jindra had been shot. So, he went there, poor boy, to die. Then we went to look there, he was there on the right side of the town hall, where you go to the cellar to the pub. There was scaffolding, he was pressed against the door there, and the tube was shot through at an angle, it means it didn't bounce, but it really had a lot of power and he got it, just as he was sideways, so it cut his ID completely, it was shot through. He got it and practically died there.'