Helena Fojtíková

"We were just like that, we didn't even think that it would lead nowhere. I came from somewhere and my mother said, 'Run away, run away, they're taking the reverend away!' But imagine, at the age of ten or eleven, I went to the rectory. I was in the hallway, where Zliča was, I can name him – the one who was taking him away. I was in the hallway with a friend, and we wanted to defend him, I don't know why. But Father Půček came out and said, 'People, please disperse,' because he was afraid that people would get into trouble as well. There was also a wooden fence there, and the men from Nedašov were breaking the fence slats and throwing them [at the State Security] . He was from Horní Lideč. But unfortunately, there was one staunch communist in the parish who reported all those men, and they were all rounded up that evening. I can still hear cars full of soldiers driving around at eleven o’clock in the evening – they were driving to the school, probably afraid that the whole village would revolt again and rise up against them. They also occupied the place with soldiers or militiamen. Those militiamen were also nasty bastards. Lord, forgive me, they are my neighbors, but that's how I feel."