Ing. Jan Lukšík

"There was an outright battle, a battle between the police and the people of Liberec. There's a street called Pražská Street, a kind of a commercial street from the town hall down, and they chased us down that street with batons and we picked up ammunition down there again, because coincidentally the old quarter was being shot up at that time, so there were a lot of rubble, so we chased them up Pražská again." - "Was that really the fight?" - "We really fought that, I still have the scar from the rubber bullet on my leg." - "Did they shoot?" - "They shot rubber bullets at us, but they were our policemen, our militiamen."

"We had been at a party and we were walking home at night and the tanks were coming. So we didn't know what was going on at first, but of course we found out very quickly. They were actually coming from the Liberec post office past the town hall and rolling towards Prague. So we actually stayed at the town hall from that morning. And then there was the crash with the tank." - "What happened there?" - "There just somehow the tank caught the arcade in that square, and of course the flat above it fell down and it buried some people. Ambulances were going back and forth. It was a big mess." - "Which square?" - "That's the square by the town hall, I don't know what it's called now, I don't know." - "This was an unfortunate coincidence?" - "Well, I guess it was, because there was a narrow alley that they were just driving by actually and somehow caught that arcade there. It buried the people there and of course there were already some injuries. Then there was a moment, boys were throwing, there was scaffolding, the town hall was being repaired at that time, and they were throwing plants or things like that from the scaffolding on top of the tanks and the GAZ vehicles that were going. And one of the Russian fools took a machine gun and turned it over the square. That's where my friend died."