Daniel Špička

"It was only after he left that my brother was called to the tiled building [the headquarters of the Ministery of Interior] by State Security and told that our friend was a homosexual. We didn't know that because it wasn't really fashionable here, at all. And back in England, he told me afterwards, MI 5 and MI 6 came to see him, gentlemen in those trench coats, and they showed him a photograph of the man who had been in charge of him, who used to go to the Three Threes pub (Tři trojky)and sat there and drank beer with our money, he was a State Security man. Christoff remembered him. What was fascinating to me, a student who came from Cambridge, they already knew about his orientation. How they did that, I don't know, because in Cambridge, if someone goes up to a student and asks them in a foreign accent 'what do you think of this Christoff?' it's impossible for them to give it away. They knew, even though he came here suddenly, at the last minute. And they already had this cop here watching him, but at the same time British intelligence knew about the cop."

"But there was one guy, I mean, an officer, who had a cap that said "moriak", like a sailor. A moriak was a moriak. And he told my father, they respected him a lot, because he was a doctor. And the officer said to him, 'Now the war's over - and you're going to go with us against the Americans?' They had already counted on some of them as officers that when they finished off the Germans, they were going to go against the Americans. Once my father had a very drastic experience there. They invited him to one of their feasts in Borek near Budějovice. It was a dinner party, and suddenly two soldiers brought a soldier to the commander's table. The commandant pulled out his pistol and shot the soldier because he had raped someone. They told the commandant and he shot him and that was it."