Anton Bartunek

And then the pharmacist, a communist, had a night shift at my pharmacy. The next day I had phone calls, people were complaining that they came with prescriptions overnight, and no one opened them for hours.They told me that someone walked with a candle in a nightgown, over a pharmacy. And she did it, she had a night shift, normally she became a crackpot. Normally she walked over the pharmacy and did not respond to anything. Maybe she was afraid to open the door, or something. I had another story from that time, it was during revolution and one morning, I suddenly heard scream, scream. I was the only one guy in a pharmacy, and I changed my dress in the office and I had about six, seven women in the changing-room. Suddenly I hear screaming and crying, Doctor, Doctor come quickly, quickly. Oh god, what's going on. Don't go there, don't go there, Helenka is standing naked in the oven. She normally got some amok and became naked in the oven, shouting incoherent sentences. Maybe, against communism. Well, God, what do we do ? Call a psychiatrist. But finally, when it took half an hour and the woman couldn't handle it. She didn't want to dress, she didn't want anything. That was normally during working hours, so I called an ambulance.

So, I lived on Olomoucka street. This is a sally road towards Olomouc directly in the former monastery, in the hospital it was such a free hospital, we have been living there, we didn't have an apartment yet and we were caught there in 1968. And it is interesting that we were sleeping all night, we knew absolutely nothing, and at the same time one tank after another rolled down that Olomoucká street. Really? Yes. We were going over the street, we didn't have a baby yet. We went through the city and in such an old part of Opava and I heard a radio through the window. And in, and there they talked about what happened at night. Hey, that the Russians came and that it's occupied. And we were also going across the square and there were Polish tanks. The Poles were there. Poles, there? They had no idea where they were. People threw checks at them, they just hid. It was, well. I have more stories like this. Well, I was so nearby. Now I don't know if it was in Bruntál or in Krnov. The Russians had one huge garrison force there. Or Bruntál or in Krnov, I don't remember exactly, it's otherwise one district north of Opava. And a friend who was a doctor at the hospital, told me that the Russians came with something. They had such big boxed green cars as ambulances and transported some soldiers, that diarrhea, diarrhea. And there in the hospital, they found out they had typhus. Hey. Well, there in those, in those barracks or in those forests where they had temporary tents, it was right in the autumn, at eight, at sixtyeight, so. So, we are talking about soldiers, who were occupants, right? Yes, we are talking about those soldiers. They came because they couldn't get off the hook and also their male nurse couldn't help them, they couldn't stop it. When the doctors were told about typhus, they wanted to put them in the infectious disease department. And they said no infectious disease department, and transported them back, and then in those barracks was heard gunfire. They shot to death them, imagine, sick people at that time.