pplk. Miroslav Vaňáček

"It was on a MIG 19 aircraft, which watched after those fifteens (MIG 15) and we were always the first to have this, because we were the ambush squadron and the only squadron completely and totally trained, which held these duties. It was a Sunday, beautiful weather, visibility all the way to Spain, that was exceptional. Well and they lifted me, that there was this goal, here somewhere, some American, and when I lifted off, I flew here and there as I was used to, simply going north or going south, diagonally like this, always and suddenly there was chaos, shouting, shouting over the radio, the command, which was superior to this military base, took me over and they told me, that they are taking me over and that they will lead me. You see I was already in Western Germany, for ages, this whole time. And they gave me a turn right, because there was total confusion. Well and then they made me set course zero-sixty, which means to the east, straight home, like to the Republic and forsage (afterburners), it had two engines that nineteen, and so I did forsage and I whizzed eastwards. And then they always wanted my position, well I knew absolutely nothing, When they shouted a lot, I could already see the airport in the distance in front of me to the east, and so I said, that I can see 490, that was the number of Žatec. Only it was the airport near Aš, somewhere totally in western Czechia, which Hitler had built there, during the war. And I already knew then, that it was massive trouble..."

"I saw that band, just behind that front, still when there were Germans there, and so they dragged some old German grandfather, beaten up, and they made themselves out to be some kind of heroes, because they needed to liquidate Germans. Maybe they worked for the Greater German Reich during the war and now they made play as revolutionaries. They dragged him to some barn, this was in Bedřichovice, and so I sneaked over there. When this band saw, that that human was just on the brink of death, they let him go, left him lying on the ground and went away. Only he and I remained there. Now that grandpa did, after a time, calm down, sat by this kind of machine, which is used to mow grass or grain in the countryside, he sat down by it, leaned on it, then took off the belt, which he had, placed the belt there, somehow wrapped it around his neck, and you can't say, that he hanged himself, but he probably suffocated. Well and I watched all of this, until he was gone. Then, when he was dead, I still know, where he is resting. They threw him into it, as I said, into that big anti-tank trench, where there were horses and these Germans like him. That's where he ended up... Those weren't red guards, those were simply some idiots. It didn't have anything in common with humanity. Not even with politics. And so I disagree with it to this day. It is a a massive disgrace on this nation, because it mostly happened after the end of the war and that is something that I differentiate greatly. During war you can excuse almost anything, but if the war does not exist, then it is just a vulgar murder and so a person has to look at it differently."