Vladimír Koudelka

"And he still came to our place, it was the end of August, to our place on a Sunday. Just a short holiday. But he didn't say anything, there was no mention of it. And at the beginning of September, suddenly the secret ones, these State Security guys appeared here. They came in the evening, we were cleaning the cattle. And where we had - they asked my parents where their son was. My parents didn't know anything. Well, then, of course, we were here in the morning, maybe we were getting up, they were already here. And so we already knew something was going on. So my mother went to Prague. She drove there, stayed with friends, and in the morning she went to Milovice. She wanted to find out about it too. And they didn't... so she had someone called to the gate, an officer. But the officer came and he didn't talk to her at all. But the guys at the gate said, 'Mother, don't worry, he's already gone over the hills.' So she came home. Well, she was so... we were scared. We didn't know what had happened to him."

"Then there were several... There is a gamekeeper´s lodge here, it's called Na Zdrůbku, there was a gamekeeper there, he was shot by the Russians. I don't know why, for what reason. There's a mill here near Níkovice. The miller was shot again. He had... The Russians were camping nearby and at night they got drunk and went there. There was a servant girl in the mill. They somehow got to know about it, so they went there. And the miller defended her there and they shot him."