Petr Pištěk

"This is crazy. You have murderers next to you, and I don't know really how... They put you in a cell with five beds and there are seven people, five of them gypsies..., it's quite a shock. Nothing against gypsies, some of the guys were really great, but they'll give you a hard time. I remember the detail that I went in there and there was a sign on the door that said TB. And I came to the cell and I said, 'Is there tuberculosis here?' They said, 'Yeah, there was a TB patient here.' And I said, 'Where was he lying?' 'Well, over there where you're going to lie.' And there were these huge spots on the pillow, and it was horrible. Yeah, yeah, they can do that... I think it's the same. If they want to break you, they... if they want you to talk, they make you so uncomfortable that you want to get out of it as soon as possible. And that's where people talk."

"So we got a house, and how could it have turned out? Huge, beautiful, with a huge garden, a huge yard, and people started to gather there, our friends of all kinds. Of course, people who were unwanted in the eyes of the regime also used to go there, so they were logically being watched, which we didn't bother about. Until we were arrested, of course. We did concerts there, there were all kinds of huge events there, in short, we had as much fun as we wanted, and that was suspicious to the regime at the time. So they followed us there, they put locals on us who wrote down car numbers, so they started checking who was going there, who were the people, until they raided the place. So in the end they arrested me, they arrested this guy Jarda, they let him go after about three months, they kept me there for almost a year and we lost our house for unlawful assembly."