Mgr. Radomír Kos

"It was the international world championships, so I was in the cabin that I had built within that gym. There were two gentlemen there with me. One was standing behind me on the left, the other behind me on the right. And they were watching everything that was going to go on the air, because it was a live broadcast, of course, and so on. This was in August, it was a year after, after the invasion. So people reacted accordingly, too, as an audience, spectators. I was ordered that the moment there was something inappropriate in that sound modulation, starting with the whistling and I don't know what, I had to replace it immediately with something else. So there were two tape recorders on which the applause was recorded, and the moment it looked like the audience was going to start acting negatively according to these gentlemen, I had to pull down the noise mics. There was only the commentator's microphone left, and then I replaced those audience reactions from the tape recorders by playing in the satisfied applause."

"They camouflaged the sign - we were broadcasting from the Typos building, where we had studios - so they camouflaged the sign that said Czechoslovak Television Brno. And the interesting thing was that the Russians, who were driving around all the time in GAZ cars and OT vehickles - that's an armoured personnel carrier - couldn't find it. They found the radio station, Czechoslovak Radio, around the corner on Beethoven Street, but they couldn't find Typos as a studio. They kept missing it, so we were broadcasting, broadcasting, broadcasting. It wasn't until about sixteen o'clock that a transporter stopped right by Typos, by that passage. And then we found out that it was... This transporter, it stopped there because it was driven by a Czech, a collaborator, who was simply collaborating with the Russians."