Karel Pořízka

"I took the car and stopped by the hospital in Prostějov. I borrowed a hospital dressing gown frrom Ward 11, and I was wearing sweatpants because they were appropriate with the dressing gown. I arrived in Kroměříž, put on the gown outside the psychiatric hospital gate, and pretended being a psychiatric patient. I visited Augustin. He was pleased. I told him the story of how one comrade in Bousín had denounced his petition - what kind of freedom did they want? - and that in the end his own wife signed it. He laughed and was pleased. And I didn't return the gown to Prostějov. I threw it in the garbage can and went home."

"They came at night to relieve him of his position as the chairman of the national committee, and he gave them the keys to the office, but he had a spare set. When they left - they likely went to celebrate his removal from office - he got a wheelbarrow and went into action. Similar things had been already happening in the villages around - municipal archives were being destroyed, shredded, burned or whatever they did to them. He loaded the majority of the archive on his wheelbarrow and took it home, and then he hid it in one room in the house. They went after him hard, demanding that he must have known about the lost archive, but he never admitted it, claiming he didn't know anything and he didn't take anything away, but in fact he kept it at home."