Jaroslav Kubínek

"He then sent me such information, I remember that it had such a long Russian name, but it was translated as the military-political situation and the operational situation in the Baltic military district. In the Baltics, Soviet power crumbled with the knowledge of the Soviet government, and soldiers responded to this new situation. I asked him why he was giving it to me if something was being prepared or what, and he replied that if something was being prepared, he would not give it to me. Just to be informed. That was the clue that made me more cautious.”

"On Thursday there were several meetings were what I could do, I did, but after lunch one person I knew very well, from Hradec Králové, came with such finding that something should or could happen in the evening during a demonstration in front of the theater; that those who were allegedly trained as the voice backdrop of the south platform of the winter stadium, and it was all just said, I did not know, so they will call: They are not here, let's go for them! That there could be a movement in the city with the aim to come in front of the district committee and there could be some provocation. And that I should take into account that the Central Committee of the Communist Party meets on Friday and that the incident in Pardubice would not escape attention. I didn't know about it. So, even though the internal instruction was not to go to any demonstrations, I thought I had to go there. Because if there is a conflict in front of the district committee building and there are more people, you never know when the table will break. "