Oluša Bláhová

“In nineteen forty-eight, on the twenty-fifth of February when there was the communist putsch, students organized a huge manifestation but a silent one, you could not speak at all in the march. We set out from Technical University where it had been summoned to, to Charles Square where Czech Technical University was , from where they went to Resslova Street, along the riverbank and over the bridge to Prague Castle and to Malostranské Square. It was prohibited to talk, we had to be completely silent so that there was no reason to disperse us, however, where we came to Malostranské Square, buses full of militiamen came there and they went for us. They were chasing us, we were running away, some ran towards the Castle, some towards Petřín, and they ran behind us, there waited the others (militiamen) and we ran towards president to support him. And up there I saw, I will never forget it, that a boy ran from there to Malostranské Square where I met him and he was carrying a flag over his hand and said: They killed our friend, they are shooting at us, do not go there.”

"Well, the screenings started and to make it look that it had been our fault, they called it student´s screenings and because I had been in the Youth National Socialist Party (because I had always liked politics and I had had the educational function there) and they registered who had been a member and so they summoned me to Action Committee and sanctions followed immediately; they sent it to university and based on it they expelled me from school."