Mgr. Robert Novák

"First we met in the theatre, and then we took the occupation strike. But we didn't occupy the school, since pedagogical faculty was in multiple buildings throughout the whole city, so we occupied the dormitories- because we all, not only the people staying there, but also people from Hradec, who went for lunch into the dorms, used to gather in there, so it seemed reasonable to occupy it instead of six or seven buildings. We rather did the opposite- we occupied the dorms and sent people in front of the individual buildings, already on Tuesday morning and there they started to explain what is going on, how should the things.... Or that we are going to this strike here, that the strike should start somehow...And again, the classical situation... I don't know how many students from Hradec attended the pedagogical faculty, whether 800, I guess, 600 to 800 people, maybe around 1000, but only 50 active strikers. Other 100 helped if we needed something, and the rest had holidays."

We did - we made barrels on the weekends. We just went to nature, so we bought a barrel, somewhere at Orlice or at the coast of Elbe. So we made a fire there and we just made barrels there and played on guitar and so on and we called ourselves Sudparta, and then we found out that someone in the pub brought in and said Sudparta and they turned it into a Sudetendeutsche Partei, so I didn't know what to tell them. 'What is Sudparta?' I'm saying that Sudparta - like we're going to ride those barrels. 'Don't talk, don't lie. You'll get it!' And like this, and only after it came out of them, that it was like the Sudetendeutsche Partei, I was at that first interrogation for perhaps two hours, and they simply said, 'You wanted to emigrate!' I said, 'How about emigrating, where to emigrate?' - 'You wanted to emigrate to Australia.' And like this over time, because of course, they picked up my friends from the various schools and the ones we went there, and then we kind of put it back together - the story, that a guy from that pub, not even from our party, he got into a conflict with the law, so they pinched him to be an informer. And he had nothing to bring, so he sat here with us and said that we were Sudparta and so on. "