Miloslav Vyhnal

"That night, when we woke up, we went out to see what was going on. I don't know how they woke us up. We came in front of the transmitter and saw some kind of special unit to destroy the targets, there were, I guess, seven to ten of them. Because they were standing in that corridor, the first one was standing on the top step, that was unprepared, not one of them had the equipment of a soldier. They were variously dressed in army gear. The one who stood first, I remember very well, he had a navy shirt, white with blue stripes, and a navy blouse. The others had some kind of camouflage jackets. They were all armed with guns, mostly submachine guns. Well, when I came in, when I saw what was going on, they hadn't fired yet, they were standing on the top step and they probably didn't know what was where. We rolled out of the rooms in our pyjamas and I went to turn it off then because the door was open and the equipment was on, so it was going. I took about a step towards the door, and he pulled out this Kalashnikov and shoved it in my stomach and drove me back against the wall. We were standing against the wall where the kitchen was, opposite the stairs. Well, they started firing into those two rooms."

"We did broadcast, but I believe that when the Russian officer ordered the machine to be turned off, they thought they were taken care of and that the machine was turned off. That's why they were terribly wondering where the signal was coming from, and I witnessed that because - the way to see it is that we were there in an enclosed area, so we didn't really know what was going on around us, only from that window we could see the unit that occupied that hill because that window was on the north side towards the slopes and the finns that the army had. I was suspicious, that's what we heard, that a helicopter was flying by. And I suppose in the sense that to target that it was actually transmitting there. Because they didn't know where these people were getting the signal and they thought we were off. And it wasn't true. So by the time they got it all organized, it was still transmitting. Of course, we, because we were getting signals, we put it on there and we couldn't stand to sleep 12 hours a night, so we'd go to bed at like two o'clock for those three hours. And it has to be said that both of us. So by the time they targeted it and decided to take it out, coincidentally, we were both in our pajamas, in bed, sleeping in our own rooms. And only the noise woke us up."