Martin Křesina

“A quite popular event was the long-distance march on the Broumov walls. It was the last weekend in August. We slept over, there was a pioneer cottage camp, so on Friday you could go there and sleep there and on Saturday too and in the evening there was a country ball. And in the first half of the 1980s, there was always a friend invited to the country ball. And that was always: 'Pepa, our friend, will play here today. ‘ And suddenly Pepa Nos appeared there. In fact, only the graduates of the march or those who organized it went to this ball. A year later, Jimmy Chard was there, yeah, just like that... even that was how things were done. Yeah, just like that an unobtrusive author was smuggled in this way, and ... as far as I know, several hundred people could participate. It was a normal long-distance march, even with the speech of the chairman of the local national committee and so on. And maybe he didn't even know what the authors were, you know, that's why those people went there from all over the country to the march. Obviously, you got to know the games there, settlements from another part of the country, but it didn't matter if it was here or somewhere in the track, you just met someone you knew, and either you quickly got together or not. But many times he got an advice: 'Watch out, that's a snitch.‘“

“We met regularly once a week at meetings where we trained skils such as knotting, encryption, various knowledge games, and then unofficially we met other people always somewhere in the city center. In the Česká [Brno street], as there was a big round, cinema posters and stuff, there were encrypted messages about when and where a meeting was taking place. Well, that was simple. There were posters of the cinema, so he always checked a day of a certain movie, there was an inconspicuous comma or symbol at the second poster of another cinema regarding an hour, then maybe somewhere the place of meeting was written in cipher or underscore, for example, before a cinema, so it was chosen to be the third cinema. When we were sending the ciphers, we used the ID as a code book. On the penultimate two pages actually, so there was a lesson, so classic, that a line number and letter number was always written, and that's how the code was actually written. We were doing summer camps focused on military service, so we had it with self-defense, we learned to climb, swimming, shooting with airguns, throwing a knife. Well, according to the assignment, it was supposed to be a preparation for future explorers. Of course, we did not care for any politics, so we had taught the boys the military skills, but we still thought that if the situation were appropriate, it could be a good guerrilla force.”