Oldřich Kácha

“All those doctors were wearing white rubber aprons and we drove people from the Peace Square who had been buried under the rubble. At that time, cops were still cops and they used their own hands to dig the people out. When I saw that it was not possible to pass there, I turned the ambulance towards the pharmacy. He reversed a bit with the tank, grabbed a gun and shot in the air. I took the stretcher we had and we crouched behind that stretcher made of foam, which acutually had no sense. When the Russki stopped that, I went there again. All the people who were there helped me to get the wounded on the stretchers. I went to the car with the stretcher. I don’t know whether you had ever seen a dead or unconscious person. When you want to move them, they just slide away, it’s just a dead mass which is hard to grasp. The stretchers were U-shaped and we were not sure whether the people were still alive. They forced them to my ambulance, to the space for the stretcher. I told them not to fool around, that there’s another ambulance. They pulled the injured guy out, I put the stretcher with another casualty inside and drove on and then back to the square.”“All those doctors were wearing white rubber aprons and we drove people from the Peace Square who had been buried under the rubble. At that time, cops were still cops and they used their own hands to dig the people out. When I saw that it was not possible to pass there, I turned the ambulance towards the pharmacy. He reversed a bit with the tank, grabbed a gun and shot in the air. I took the stretcher we had and we crouched behind that stretcher made of foam, which acutually had no sense. When the Russki stopped that, I went there again. All the people who were there helped me to get the wounded on the stretchers. I went to the car with the stretcher. I don’t know whether you had ever seen a dead or unconscious person. When you want to move them, they just slide away, it’s just a dead mass which is hard to grasp. The stretchers were U-shaped and we were not sure whether the people were still alive. They forced them to my ambulance, to the space for the stretcher. I told them not to fool around, that there’s another ambulance. They pulled the injured guy out, I put the stretcher with another casualty inside and drove on and then back to the square.”

„Once, I had enough so I got my submachine gun and made a quick trip to Liberec. Because nobody knew nothing. And I did as I planned. But, my exhaust pipe cracked and it made a terrible noise. I was already in Turnov, I almost made it, and there was a cop on that spot. He told me to get it fixed. But, unfortunately, this one could read. He looked at my papers, read České Budějovice, called them and found out that everyone is out on field exercises. Then, the shit hit the fan. I was waiting there for I don‘t know for how many days and then a junior officer with his little gun came to pick me. He said that we would load the motorbike onto a train and that he would accompany me as an escort. But he had that little gun of his and I had a submachine gun. Like the Švejk stories.“