Ján Boďa

“We had heard, the battalion commander announced it, that the commander of the regiment returned to the camp for live documentation. And then we received an order to get on the BVPs. We drove away from that field, lined into the train of vehicles and we headed towards a crossroad where on the left was Hradec Králové and on the right Wroclaw. Sure, the driver and BVP´s commander had their heads out also in moving position. Above the troop it was possible to open the roof; we called it canopy, but it was prohibited to be opened during the ride. Nevertheless, the whole train had its canopy open and everybody looked if we were turning to the left or right. Well, and luckily, we turned left and went back to our garrison.”

“But it all lasted until my retirement to the civilian life; I was leaving on August 31. Yet before Christmas it was said that the officers might need to stay in the garrisons. Well, we faced something what we called the enhanced combat readiness. Any kind of leaving passes or days off for Christmas were forbidden, and then it went only in such swells. In any case, I used to go there the most frequently and I also used to enter the service only as an assistant of the supervision unit. And there was such a wardrobe, a safe, that in a case of some kind of given password, it was necessary to open an envelope from there and act accordingly. Only one and only envelope was not in the safe, but hanged on a key. And there was stated in big writing Krkonoše.”