Rudolf Houfek

"The Museum of the Workers' Revolutionary Movement was opposite the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and there was a stone in between and a bomb exploded there. Nobody knows, I asked the smart ones - Čuňas - or those who have access to everything. Nobody knew much about it, it was probably a provocation from State Security, but they really don't know. Because there were about three explosions in the country, and somewhere they even caught someone - who was working in the quarry and really meant it. I was picked up the very next day, actually. That's how I remembered the raw materials collection yard. They picked me up at work and I didn't know what was going on. I didn't have any explosives, but they took me. They usually didn't pick me up from work, mostly it was a normal summons when the summons letter came, and that's when they picked me up at work first thing in the morning. They took me outside Budějovice, took pictures of me against a wall. And then we went to Lannovka, but from the back, from the yard. And it started - fingerprints, taking pictures from the front and back, and completely different people. I had enough, actually. It was a ten-hour interrogation, even though it was nothing. Even after the interrogation they were able to - actually it happened to me once, but how to say goodbye to them? They lead you in and unlock the bars they had there and say, 'Well, Rudolf, goodbye' and I say, 'Well, have a nice day'. I felt stupid saying 'goodbye' – that would mean I wanted to go there, that I was looking forward to seeing them again. So he said to me, 'Well, if you don't want to say goodbye, let´s do it once more.' We went to the bars again."