Ing. Canka Zemanová Poledníčková

"The August occupation, I was just here at the school, like I said, my parents arrived in '64 and they left in '68 and we were supposed to leave about two days after that happened, so I'm... well, I'm, I was thirteen, so I was waiting at the embassy and the first plane I took was to Sofia, so basically as a thirteen-year-old kid I didn't even know exactly what was going on. It's hard to understand when you're taught for thirteen years in school that these are the good guys and the nice guys, and then suddenly they're here and everybody's afraid of them. These kids... few understood why."

"I would only say that in Bohemia at that time, or in Czechoslovakia at that time, the standard of living was much higher than in Bulgaria. In Bulgaria, the income was lower, people lived a poorer life, you could say, but otherwise the Bulgarians are a bit more social than the Czechs, but otherwise people are good and bad everywhere, you know. You can't say that any nation is bad or good... or good, well."