"Well, in August 1968, when I was about to start my first year of secondary school in September, my mother and I were in Yugoslavia. Each with her own group. I was in Kaštel Stary, she was in Split, and gentlemen from Russia and other 'friendly' countries came here and ambushed us. So we started to devour the news there, we didn't really know what to do. So then my mother, because she knew a lot of people in Split, so they arranged... The mayor of Split even left them an office for the Czechs, so everything was being arranged there. They immediately arranged for those Czechs who were finishing their holidays to stay free of charge, they had free transport, they didn't have to pay for anything. And in that office, my mother recalled, Mr. Hájek, who was the Foreign Minister, used to go there with his family, because he was also on vacation there at that time. Well, they had arranged in one of those radios, in the Split Gracin radio that every day there would be a half-hour program in Czech, just for the Czechs who were on vacation at the moment. So they always wrote a report about all kinds of events, what's new, what the Czechs can get and so on, and I always read the report to the radio."
"That's when all the intrigues started in the church and people started leaning more towards the Russian side, whereas before it was under Serbian jurisdiction. Estebans started to come to my father that he could give some reports, they started to force him to do so. So finally, in connection with the fact that things were in turmoil in the church and Sate Securioty members harassed him him, he just left the church, the church ministry. They slandered him and said that he had stolen something, and then it was proved that he hadn't stolen anything. I guess it was a terrible situation for him because he really went into Orthodoxy out of pure enthusiasm and love. And it turned out like this."
"My mother recalled that the last time she saw my father was at Pankrác, when she and my mother went to visit him. She wasn't allowed to enter the visitors´ room, so she had to wait in a long corridor where there were many men standing facing the wall. So she waited there, and then after about a quarter of an hour she heard that Daddy had come out of a room with a bloody shirt collar, and that they just hugged and were unable to say anything. That was actually the last time she saw him. And then they sent the notice that he had died, and about a month after the news, they got the urn with the ashes. They didn't know whose ashes it was, because they certainly didn't separate it, like they put everybody separately, but nevertheless, with respect and Orthodox service, they put it in the grave, whoever it was, they just deserved it too. And Father Čikl and Father Petřek served at that deposition again."
Kateřina Nepustilová was born in Prague on 16 September 1952 to Libuše and Rudolf Holý. After the assassination of Heydrich in 1942, her father was actively involved in helping the Czechoslovak paratroopers who were hiding in the crypt of the Orthodox Church in Resslova Street. In August 1968, the witness accompanied clients of a Czech travel agency in Yugoslavia. When the Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia, she read the latest news in Czech on the radio in Split. After graduating from the secondary school of economics, she took a job at the Institute of Studies and Standardisation in Prague, started a family and devoted her free time to acting in the independent amateur theatre group Orfeus under the direction of Radim Vašinka, with whom she celebrated many successes. After the Velvet Revolution, she worked for the Civic Forum and later as an economist for newspaper publishers and accountants for private entities. In 2025 she was living in Prague-Michle.
