Petr Kubíček

"Making a concert was one of our dreams. So we rented a hall and invited some bands from all over the republic. We found, borrowed and built the sound system. We wanted to play our normal blues music for people. There was some underground stuff in there, actually, everything was underground. We started playing and two local people came, I don't know if they were from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. They said they didn't like it and that they were cancelling the event. There could have been a hundred people there. Of course they didn't like it. And so we kept on playing. We thought, 'Go talk rubbish to a pub and leave us alone.' But they called the emergency regiment from Frýdek-Místek and they came to enjoy it. You could see it in them. They were beating us without thinking. I took some hits, too. I still don't know what for."

"A bus full of them (National Security Corps members) arrived. They surrounded the whole pub. A few of them went to the exit and everyone had to go through their check. They were checking and searching everybody. I couldn't see what was going on outside. I was by the sound system and I was keeping an eye on it, because everything had been borrowed. When it was my turn, I saw my friend being pulled by her hair on the floor. So I said, 'Oh, my God, what are you doing? She's a girl and she didn't do anything.' And I immediately got kicked in the head. And I was in the police car with the others right away. Just because of the question. There were a few people left who were so angry that when the bus from Frýdek-Místek arrived, I think it was public transport, they surrounded it and wouldn't let it go. It was a kind of demonstration. Then another bus arrived, because there were probably not enough of them for the 100 people. It was a mess all right. I can't remember it directly because I was sitting in the police car and I was bleeding all over. All I remember is the shoe I saw in front of my face. Anyway, it was insane."