Lubomír Khýr

"One meeting was important for me in that period, when they arrested Standa Devátý. We had had work meetings, where we created protest posters, these big banners from sewed together bed sheets, on which we, I don't know anymore, if we sprayed or painted them, wrote: 'Stanislav Devátý arrested.' I wrote it in my technical script, which I had well-learned from school. And we hung those posters in Brno in Česká street, all the way up there, where there's an intersection in the shape of a T and where the trams go in all directions, to say the trams from Brno. At the busiest time, so that as many people as possible would see it, that is to say around three o'clock, when people were going home from work, we installed it there. We tied it with strings to the railings, where there similar attention grabbers, that invited people to football matches. We covered those over. The next day we then also threw out lots of pamphlets there, with information about who Stanislav Devátý was and why he was arrested."

"Back then I lived at the dormitory Průmyslové stavby Brno in Komárov and little ways from the dormitory lived Dalibor Havlík, whom I had met in a pub to which I used to go. He grabbed my attention, because he had long hair and read books. I started conversing with him, he started talking with me. When he found out, that I have sickles and hammers in my head, as if it were something normal, he started lending me books and magazines. Mostly exile literature. It was a shock to me. I remember, that I was walking enthralled in my dreams for two months. Nobody could talk with me. I was approaching suicide, because my whole world had been shattered. I felt I had been deceived. I was angry at my parents, at school, at that whole system, that it had been deceiving me the whole time."