Pavel Pavlovský

"I was in Prague. And suddenly some gentlemen came [and supposedly]: 'Come with us.' So we went to the Bartolomejska street. We sat there and talked and talked. [In the style]: 'How are you, what are you doing ...' They asked such silly questions. 'And what about your dad, uncle, and everyone?’ I sat there for about two hours, and it didn't matter why I was there. They didn't want anything from me either. They basically asked about nonsense. And then I don't know what came to my mind [when] they asked about those relatives, so I said I have the uncle, that's Jiří Pavlovský, and then I have another uncle and he's an ambassador in Finland now. And they said, 'Yes?' And I said, 'Sure.' And so it all ended and I walked home from the Bartolomejska street. Monika [at that time] lived in Dřevná Street near Palacký Bridge and the Finnish embassy was in that house. And I went and a guy followed me. And he saw that I was going to the house of the Finnish embassy. I had to fool them terribly when I told them that my uncle was an ambassador there, and then I [actually] went to the Finnish embassy. But there really was a Pavlovsky there, but it was no favor at all! It was a coincidence. I have no idea what it occurred to me to make fun of them, so I said it like that there. And then I confirmed it by entering the house where the Finnish embassy is."

"The commander of the first sequence was named General Pavlovskij. And we took a radio car there, and I wrote such a statement. There was a Ruthenian, a [college] graduate, who simultaneously translated it into Russian. And the radio transmitter was so terribly powerful that when the Russians had some transistors running there, it got into them. So, they listened to our statement, [where] we urged them to leave. So, they suddenly drove there - they drove an armored car and looked for where the "radio station" was and chased us all over the airport. [And] that was such a war of mine. They didn't find us. We then ran away from the airport, so maybe we avoided a very awkward situation if they found it in us."

"And one fine day I slept at home again. Suddenly the phone rang. And my father-in-law who was working in Skoda said, 'Paul, get up and hurry to the barracks, the Russians are here.' He was such a joker, so I thought, 'That's a good joke, how he wakes me up.' 'However, I turned on the radio and there was the news already. So, I said to myself, 'Jesus Christ.' So, I hurried to get the bus. [It] went all the way up, that was nice. However, the mysterious name Bohuntie was [written] on the sign and the Bohuntie station was also written on the timetable - suddenly here in the Czech Republic. But [as it turned out, the name] Bohuntie was the code name [for] the airport. When I was a soldier, the bus drove up to those barracks. So, I came there and there was a big riot. It was a great experience. Because when it all broke out, the pilots and [their commanders] behaved very bravely there. For example, they pulled all the lighting out of the runways, so it was not possible to illuminate the landing areas. They sabotaged everything. And the Russians landed there with the huge Antons between the two trucks. They turned on the lights and they landed there with those huge planes. Our pilots hated them, but again they appreciated that they were experienced, that they were able to land with it. And that was the first sequence. They didn't know where they were. At that time, they were coming from somewhere in the Baltics, where they were probably also suppressing some riots. They were ragged boys, poor people. They had no supply, they had nothing. Just worn out, weird, homeless."