Radko Kubičko

"So this Perkner (the dean), because we considered him to be this Gorbachev communist, who knew perfect English, knew the realities and had a world overview and so on, so we came to him and told him that we were starting an occupation strike and that we were demanding - and we told him, it was a rough thing to do at the time - that we were asking for the keys to the building because we were on an occupation strike, we were asking for a Xerox machine, we were asking for a cyclostyle printer, we were asking for a darkroom to take photographs, everything, and he was kind of cautious, true, but nonetheless accommodating, so maybe he said: yes, you can be here in the building, but I can't give you the key, so the secretary of the faculty, Mr. Klein, who was also so careerist, he was already chasing a new wind, so he'll be here with you. So really the secretary of the faculty was with us all the time during the strike, and if anyone wanted to come in at any time, for example at night, it was Pažout who came at night on principle, sometimes through the window, sometimes through the main entrance, so he went to open the door for us."

"Well, I listened to it myself and they (parents) didn't know much about it. But as I say, the Voice of America, that's where it started and then it went on through Free Europe, where it was a little bit more difficult because it was jammed, of course, so I had to - for example, in that Brno, also a kind of memory for the Memory of Nations, because in Brno, the jammers, because they felt, the communists, that after midnight the workers had to sleep, so they turned off the jammers after midnight. So I was listening to that programme, which I still do today, because we took it over, from Free Europe, Events and Opinions, which was the main journalistic programme, so after midnight I was listening more or less without jamming."

"Well, some of the professors started to change their coats, some of them didn't, I remember that terribly well, there was one who was in the Marxism-Leninism cabinet, that was the Marxism-Leninism cabinet at every faculty, and at the journalism school it was hypertrophied, because it was one of the most important institutions there, the Marxism-Leninism cabinet, and there was a guy named Hrubý, we used to say, when we saw him in those lectures, we used to say that the name Hrubý, that he was so sharp on Marxism-Leninism. Well, he didn't accept it, and he even called me and said: you are committing crimes here, and on that Národní Ttřída street there were slogans like Hang the Communists and so on. And I said, well, I wasn't there, but there were certainly no such slogans, but nevertheless I'm glad you know what you deserve."

"Of course, on Saturday I heard from Petr Uhl and Lída Rakušanová what had happened, and I already received a call from my colleagues at the faculty saying that a student strike was being prepared and that I should come back from Brno. So I came and from Sunday I lived at the faculty for about two months, because someone brought a mountain climbing sleeping bag and I took possession of that and I lived in that sleeping bag for about two months.