Stanislav Volný

"So all of my acting like you could read about in here started in the period of time when my father has been arrested in 1952. After he came back from the Jachymov prison and told me about how they treated him there... my father has been arrested by Gestapo (The former secret state police - translation’s note) already in1939 in Petchkarna. And when he told me that they didn’t treated him here as bad as in Jachymov prison, something really grew inside of me. That’s why every since that I felt an aversion against the regime. When someone introduced himself on behalf of the regime it was like you would try to scare me with a devil. It just was there inside of me. From that time I never did anything right for them. I won’t tell you all the things I used to do, because some of it it’s really nasty. When I realized how they have twisted the paragraphs during the Mr. Hučín trial in 1967 and in 1976 and so on, I didn’t like it a bit, because I knew, they might use the same paragraphs against me also even today. So I still better keep certain things to myself. We can’t be hundred percent sure yet, that we got rid of the Bolshevik."

"Among others I also said that I don’t want the Soviet army here, that I don’t wish for them to be here with us and those, who want them here shall take them in their homes and shall go to work to support them themselves. I also suggested that to prevent the boredom while staying in their homes, they shall let them fuck their own wives. And that was just the moment when the prosecutor yelled at the secretary: ´Do not write down about the accused intention to displease us.´ so I guess I was displeasing not only the Russians, but also Mr. Prosecutor."

"Regarding the wardens - of course they have certain regulations that they must obey, but I can’t say I would experience any kind of humanity from them. There were only two such cases as far as I remember. We have been talking about my case on the cell openly. There were not only murderers, but also others. Then one day some Lt picked me up on the cell and took also another man from Telnice town and told us, that we will go out to sweep the floor in the hall. I thought that was weird. Why would we clean the floor? He told us: ´You start over here and you go and start sweeping on the other side.´ But he still stood by my side. I couldn’t figure what is going on here. So I was sweeping the floor and was very cautious too. And when the other man turned his back on us, this LT whispered to me: ´Look, you shouldn’t be talking about our authorities like that on the cell. It is not the right time yet.´ I realized that they hear every single word we say there. So this was the only time when I could say that there are nice people in the prison even though they wear a uniform."

"Frankly, my opinion is that if we managed to move the Sudeten Germans out of here because they wanted to establish the millennial imperium here, no matter if they were guilty or not, we moved them anyway. So I don’t know how we should have dealt with people who were saying: ´For ever and never otherwise with the Soviet Union, ´ shouldn’t have those been displaced as well? Or those who hurt the others etc?"