Ing. Ivan Ptáčník

“I think that he joined the net which Moravec started, I mean Mr. Moravec who was in charge of Secret Service for Beneš because in my opinion the net he had could not have been established just by my dad. They had perfect information, they knew about people, they knew who they were going to arrest, when and where something would happen, hence they could adapt to it and cope with it. He said it was not a problem to save someone from Gestapo, but it was difficult to feed and hide them. I mean, you have a hundred or a thousand people, and they are somewhere in the mountains. You must guard them because sometimes it happens that they go bananas, and someone fires a gun. At that moment, Gestapo knows that partisans are there. You need to hide them where nothing will happen, where it is safe. And the food, that is tons of food a year, and you have to secure all that for them."

“He was exposed to Agent Orange or more likely to dioxins as the side effect. I have to say, there was not much information about it, they cooperated with the Soviets, Frenchs, and Americans in the treatment. They told my stepfather that he survived dioxins thanks to the fact he had been lactated until the age of two. He had chloracne which means that your whole body is covered which means that there is a pustule, a pockmark, skin, and a pockmark again. They tied him and a doctor took a grinder like a drill with sandpaper, he put on a lab coat, and he ground his face. They used liquid nitrogen for his back, they dipped a blanket in liquid nitrogen wearing gloves, put it on his back, and tore off his skin. He said that he managed it for the first time but fainted for the second time. They then did him liver biopsy in his consciousness; they stuck a little tube in his side, took a sample, and he got about twenty thousand crowns. At that time, they allowed him to go to Algeria also thanks to his father and they recommended him as a treatment against dioxins and these craps Algerian sun and bananas. Everyone gave up on him and a lot of people died there so they allowed him to go to Algeria thinking that he would die there. He survived and lived a surprisingly long time after it.”