Stanislav Cibulka

"I come down Bělehradská Street from the Museum to Tyl Square and I saw six ambulances parked there. There was Elektra shop, so there were six ambulances on Bělehradská Street. I was wondering what's up, and then I heard, I came to Tyl Square and there I saw that there was a barricade made from a tram, a barricade from the sausage stand, and down on I. P. Pavlova there were policemen, and they had, I won't forget this, they had a GAZ vehicle, and they had a loudspeaker about two meters high on it, and they were playing Freckled Girl, I won't forget this. It was so loud that you couldn't hear anything else, and they were shooting at the people on the barricade. I didn't know it, I was about to cross, and the guy next to me grabbed his stomach, got shot, and they immediately took him to the ambulances. So I changed my mind and I walked through Mír Square in a big circle to go home, because I lived on Tyl Square. Well, what happened in the evening was that the tanks arrived, our tanks, of course, not the Russian ones, and they tore up the barricade and behind them the policemen beat up everybody who was there in a terrible way."