Franjo Jelušić

"This way, the more we opened Matić poljana, the more we advanced, as I would say, the more cold it got. It was bitterly cold. When we opened Matić Poljana, then you had something to see. It was beating on us, on us, our people, dear, my dear, we couldn't raise our heads. Then, let's say, you bowed your head so you wouldn't get hit, in the face. But the only thing that saved me was that I had, for example, socks and underwear made of sheep's wool, which the women knew how to knit. But that saved me, I had a good raincoat. It was from the former Yugoslav army, it was worn by non-commissioned officers. I managed to get that, me and another one, and he died, we both had those raincoats. That saves you, no. Those raincoats, the coats, had an opening so you could put your hands inside and take them out. If you need a weapon, if you come to evil. When someone says, there are many who said that people were helped, no one alive could help anyone. The one who was, let's say, in the column, he simply, from that column, when he couldn't go any further, lay down, went outside and lay down on that snow and stayed like that. That's how those 26 remained. On Matić Poljana. They were perhaps weaker, less dressed. And that's how it was, you see."

"And we fought more for weapons than for food, when we attacked Bosiljevo, captured Bosiljevo, we... organized all, let's say... a team of horses, oxen, everything,to take weapons and food. We kept it as long as everything was exported to our dugouts. And afterwards, from those dugouts, if it is was necessary, then it was removed. These were the designated people who guarded those dugouts. And so it was. And how long did you manage to hold Bosiljevo? Bosiljevo, until they got everyone out. We were all around to prevent the enemy from coming and then we left him. And, in two days, in two days, it was all taken away. People were not so happy to go, those with carts, but they had to. That was the designated place where the food and weapons were taken. We had nothing to do with it, the committees had to do with it, the civil government had to do with it. The only thing is, we advocated that everything be taken care of. And edit and then we'll move on. That's how it was, you see."