Jan Zima

“After the Revolution, I am now probably the first, how the civic commissions were formed. Thus, review committees and civic commissions were established. Honza Ruml was already the Minister of the Interior. So they initiated it. These committees were tasked with verifying the work of individual State Security member, only them, not the normal police. And assess whether they are able to provide additional services to the Public Security, or to leave without any claims, without anything. It was assumed that the other union, that was the so-called inner enemy, was acting as the inner enemy here, so they all had to leave. Or they should have gone, practically. I became some unelected or self-elected chairman of the district civic commission in Tabor. With the fact that it was recognized by those other members of the commission; there were representatives of the Communist Party, the People's Party, represented by Jarda Janovský of Planá, for the Communist Party there was a male, a cop from Tábor, from a traffic police department. Then there was Mr. Růžička behind the auxiliary technical troops, even there was one for the Republicans for a while, and then we kicked him out because it wasn't possible, it was a freak like Sládek, who attended about two of those negotiations, but that was not the case. There were more parts, not just the opposition party. So this second department... they all had to leave at the Tabor district without claiming any compensation and service. The only problem there actually was with Mr. Losos, it was the chief of passports and visas, who appealed many times. He appealed, perhaps not in court, then, but I read them all, it came to me, I dismissed them all. He claimed he didn't hurt anyone. I knew he had taken the passports of Šormová, that he had hurt a lot of people by preventing them from traveling. And as chief of passports and visas, he was responsible to all that.”

“Always, with every interrogation, even with the others, those interrogations were many back then. So there was a paper on their table saying that, given the international and internal political situation, I was of the opinion that my signature under the Charter was a mistake, so I am withdrawing it.' And you sign this, Mr. Winter, and we leave you in peace and you will be well off. You will appreciate it, we will appreciate this kind of gesture of yours. Wife, daughter, everyone will be fine. Otherwise, of course, vice versa, you will have problems, your wife will have problems. It is your fault and you pay for it too. ' And the assurance, like it was before: ' Don't think that an emigration could save you, you got to pay for what you have done here too. 'It was necessary during a single interrogation, and at the next one Captain Vošta told me before retiring: 'Apply for emigration, and I will personally handle it.' Of course I did not believe him.´