Jaroslav Krbůšek

"It often happened that immediately after the opening, for example in a week or three days, in four days, Comrade Křížová forbade it. She always came up with a reason. Maybe there was an exhibition by Eva Kmentová and in the paper that I gave her, it was written that five or I don't know ten heads, bronze heads would be exhibited there, on some stands. She came there and said: 'Comrade Krbůšek, they are not heads, they are saints, they have a glory behind their heads. I forbid it immediately.' Or there was one of Jiří David's first exhibitions. And there were such large-format drawings hung between those glasses. And there was a mountain in one of those drawings, and an angel was flying over that mountain. The angel was naked. Then the others or the employees told me that Comrade Křížová had her coffee brought to the foyer where it was happening, and she allegedly stirred coffee, looked up, stopped stirring and said, 'What kind of genitals is there? It has to be taken it off immediately!' And like that. Sometimes it happened that there - from the beginning - when they needed to ban it, they sent an old lady with a cane who was allegedly a former headmaster of a school, and she started shouting there, for example at the exhibition of Čestmír Kafka, shouting the stuff that is exhibited here is provoking today's youth to violence. And she just started fencing there with her stick, and in the end she achieved that it got it banned.”

"They came from that side of the Jeseníky Mountains' - Polish soldiers and Polish tanks arrived. And I remember that at such the first big crossroads in Šumperk, on the way down from the so-called Holubí vrch, from those mountains, to Šumperk, a big truck arrived and someone, the driver, stopped it in the middle of the crossroads, locked it and left. The tanks stopped, then for a long time - I saw that - the soldiers discussed for a long time, and finally the first tank just crashed into the truck and pushed it all away, of course the tank destroyed it. And the tanks drove into the so-called Stalin Square, which is still there, it is not called Stalin´s, Stalin square was flooded red many times, and there was already a crowd of people who did not want to let them into the city. They were only released when the first one - there was probably a commander - moved the tank to the edge of the road where the cars were parked, and he ran over all those cars like that. Of course, the people ran away. And then the tanks entered the city and thus began the occupation by the Red Army, which lasted until the Russians left the state and from Sumperk, because there was a large tank base in Sumperk."