Private (ret.) Jaromír Pasecký

"That we were like boys, that we knew each other well. We trusted ourselves as footballers, so they always sent us, for example at Christmas, that we took our service so that they wouldn't say we were relieved. So we went into service, it was such a service just as a backup to the road. That is, we lay down on the way to Shirling. We were there from ten to four in the morning, waiting for something to happen. So different, not regular, it was irregular. So I hear something that someone is walking on the road, that something is making a clapping noise, that it is approaching us. I was the commander of the "shutter", I tell my colleague from Děčín Land: 'Arrest him, who is he?' He said, 'You're crazy, I'm not going there, he'll shoot me.' We let him pass, jumped on him from behind, and immediately handcuffed him. He was scared, we said to ourselves, 'Well, at least this is going to be a week off.' We said, 'Documents!' But there was nothing he could do, he had handcuffs. We took him on a brigade. At the brigade, they told us that we should have read his passport, that he had written in his passport that he was allowed to cross the state border, that he was going from Germany to his sick mother to Karlovy Vary. But we didn't know it. They told us, 'Then you should have checked it out!' But no one trained us for passport checks. "

When I was in Liaz and I returned after the war, the comrades came and said, 'We need you, you are good, you are reliable, we need you, you will go to the party. We give you a fortnight to think and we will wait for you, we want you. I say to them, 'Dear comrades, I do not need fourteen days for this, I will tell you now, I will not come to you.' At that moment, in three days, they cancelled my job and transferred me to Liaz down as a three-shift maintenance. And they thought they would destroy me. I took it that nothing happened, I pretended that nothing happened. There were comrades, too, master. And because we were also in Italy with the Slovan, they told us at the town hall: 'You are going to a capitalist country, you must not look at it like that, be careful, they will try to attract you and persuade you.' They told us such "scary stories" at City Hall. They didn't have to tell me, I knew how I was going to behave and what would happen. We returned from Italy and everything turned out well. I came to work and the master tells me, 'You work alone, you will not talk to people so as not to try to persuade them about anything."

"We lived through the end of the war in Lažany. At that time, when it was about the fifth or seventh or sixth of May, we hid for two or three days in the basement at Bartošů's. There was an entrance, it was hidden in the ground, we survived there for two or three days, I remember that quite well. As for the next step, that is, I want to say that my friend Jarka Stantejský, who was half a year older, was there with me. He went to first grade with me, he was a good boy. He had a gun, he had a revolver drummer. We were in Lošiny, he suddenly fired. He fired into the ground, it smoked. Then he fired another shot in the direction, I don't know where, either on the state road, where the Germans were already retreating, or towards Pyram. I do not know it exactly. Then, I don't know if it had anything to do with that, there was a Mr. Třešňák shot at Žáček's barn. So we crawled to the village, to Lažany, to tell them that he was shot there. Someone might have found out, because they pulled him out and took him to Turnov's hospital. He recovered well from that because he had a clean shot, no damaged internal organs. "