Eva Linhartová

"We were playing guitar and I had some tambourine and I was singing something and this young guy who looked like he was just a little older than me, a peer, stood in front of me and he said to me in a normal rude way, 'You c...*, shut your mouth and show me your papers,' and I looked at him and spat on his shoes. And that was the biggest mistake I could have made, because a terrible fight broke out, he threw himself at me with a baton and the friend who was with me, Pavel Kocián, jumped on him in front of me, so he caught a tear gas, I was fine, everything stung, and then I was washing his eyes at the hydrant, I remember. In the end, nothing happened to me, I just kept crying, 'Let them go, let them go.' And the boys got into a fight with them, and it started to get dark, and there were some fights with the cops, and the cops withdrew, that was on Saturday night. And on Sunday morning at nine o'clock they got in and they picked up the most hippie people, among them - there were about ten of them - I know there was Bejkr from Přerov, Ota Hůrka and one girl, she had waist-length hair, and they just took them away. And they made such a revenge that they cut all of them, the boys' hair and beards, and just tortured them there. The boys told us that they had stripped them and the skins on their necks, that they allegedly pulled their genitals and so on, and we didn't know what to do, because we had arrived there with the boys from Přerov and they disappeared. And then we were going slowly home and we stayed in Bzenec in a pub somewhere at the railway station and we waited to see if they would turn up, and they turned up around noon. And they looked really pretty beat up and with the cuts on their necks and stuff, and then they told us about it. That was probably the worst experience I've ever had."

"Old jeans, a friend's old jean jacket, my dad's checkered shirts and different ones with the buttons just up here, a headband on my head, beads on my arms, safety pins on my pants, and sometimes it happened in that apprenticeship school that I had to take it off. The rosaries we wore, we had to take them off. And once they put me on a podium in the school - the deputy headmaster, because he met me somewhere in the corridor and there was a delegation from grammar school in Uničov, so they were horrified. And then he rushed into our classroom and put a classmate, a friend of mine, who was wearing jeans and some kind of zippered sweater, and next to me, I didn't have a headband on my head, but I had some beads and jeans and a men's shirt, and he put us on the podium and told us that this is what our student should look like, and this is definitely not what they should look like."