Ing. Pavel Škoda

"They came in the morning. I said to myself, I'm going to get the tram and go to Suchdol. When I arrived, there were two gentlemen there in leather jackets and told me they needed to talk to me and to come with them. They took me to Bartolomějská Street and made me wait for a few hours until an investigator from Hradec Králové arrived. It was the East Bohemian StB investigating since Pavel Křivka lived in East Bohemia at the time. Then the interrogation started; I had a ticket to the National Theatre for that evening, and they let me go when the show was actually over. I spent the whole day there." - "When was that?" - "That was in May '85, and I was a witness at first." - "What did they want from you? Did they want you to testify about what Křivka had done in Germany?" - "They wanted all sorts of things. They would present me with bits and pieces of something, trying to confuse me. Moreover, I was ignorant of investigations and things like that, so I was quite confused. Of course they asked about the time in the GDR and so on."

"Marie Procházková, we called her Marika, was very dedicated [as the leader of the Young Nature Conservationists and former scout leader]. It's been quite a few years since she died. She ran it very well under the auspices of the then Union for Nature and Landscape Protection (Tis), which was later disbanded by the State Security and turned into the pro-regime Czech Union for Nature Conservation, which still exists today." - "What did you do with that team afterwards? What was the purpose? Was it about hiking, or was it actually nature care?" - "It was about getting to know nature, meeting in the clubhouse, and going on trips, including longer ones in the summer. Then I did a bit of practical nature conservation when I was in Suchdol for a while at the agricultural college; I became a member and we took care of and restored an educational nature trail, for example."