Zdeněk Kousal

“Of course, there was a lot of talk, and we thought the band should play there, we there will be more details. Such information took place there. Or that they have just shut down Magor, or Honza Litomiský that he was released from jail. The talks were there, but we basically did nothing anti-state. We lived for our music. They just banned the event. And those, who are a little stubborn in nature and a bit drunk, don't like cops, then there is always some shouting. I remember a girl named Ivana Svobodova, when her husband was drinking and they started pushing him into the car. So she went to defend her husband. I can still see the cop grabbing her by the beautiful blonde hair and slamming her down. Which the other friend could not bear, he ran and beat the cop as a guy would do. And he was running and running, constantly and fast, knowing that it would be real bad if they caught him. None of us told on him. Everyone denied knowing who he was. But they took revenge, three boys took it hard by a sentence in prison.”

“There was great caution on our part, because we didn't know what the army would do. In my opinion, there was a huge breakthrough was when the party chairman went to speak to CKD. He said that we would not let anything be dictated by children. Workers there began to shout, 'We are not children.' As they understood that it was really over. As long as they thought that it was just a couple of humourists, who had created something, students and artists, they were not afraid of us. But as they have seen that it was spreading much wider and that they cannot rely on those workers, only then they began bargaining. I don't remember it exactly day after day. I know that I was in the office by the evening, we received various leaflets, which we copied, improved and distributed. There were many tiny jobs and I was pretty overwhelmed. I was still working as a construction worker, studying and cleaning up to make money. At that time I had no time for anything else.”