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That night me and Rudolph did begun to organize the resistance actions.
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But as the days went bye less and less actions were happening. Affairs in our city and country were in normalization process.
So I did decided for returning back to Prague.
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But even there was nothing much going on. Public transportation was again restored so I want to Prague again on train.
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I did end up on the Staromak. ( old city square ) where I was sitting with one young Prague guy who was also disillusioned with what was happening to our country.
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As we were sitting and talking one guy came to join us and start telling us that Czech border guards were letting resistance members to scape to Austria without the passport.
Young guy did look at me I did look at him and without any hesitation we were on our way to the highway.
We did hitch the ride. To our luck man who did pich us up was on his way to Vienna so we had a single ride to our freedom.
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However when we did arrive in Moravia to one border crossing instead of letting us through we were arrested and detained for several hours.
Then we were escorted to near bye train station placed on the train to Prague and shipped beck what we did came from.
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Well since we were unescorted we did get off first train station. Went on the highway and start hitching to Bratislava in Slovakia.
After first ride we had to walk through same town from where we were placed on to the train.
Then we did get another ride.
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And Bratislava here we come.
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When we did arrive in to Bratislava in no time we did get hooked up with one guy of my age from Brno. ( in Moravia ) He too was trying to get in to Austria and made one previous attempt over the Morava river night before but did get cut.
He said that it was the best place to get over the border because between the road from Bratislava to Bratislava Nova Ves was only one fence.
Right behind the fence was a river and behind a river was Austria.
There had been observation towers on the Slovak side of the border but not all of them were mend every night.
He took us there and we did selected to us place where we will attempt to get over the fence.
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For that night he did take us in to the shack in one vineyard where every night stayed larger group of yang people.
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Next day we went out and I did buy at the hardware store wire cutters to get through the fence.
Since I was the only one who had any money then I had to buy the cheapest what did also mean smallest.
We did spend our day in town then in the evening you would be able to see us walking from Devin Castle toward Bratislavska Nova Ves.
On our right side of the road were large vineyards where in one place we did leave the road and hid in them.
We were mostly laying down till about four am when we decided to make our move.
We did make quick run from vineyard in to the ditch beside fence. Where we did lay down and I did begun to be cutting the fence.
For the size of our cutters process was wery slow. Young guy who was on the look out said that he can see a car lights on the road from Bratislava.
We were anticipating some civilian vehicle. Still I did hand over the cutters to the guy from Brno.
No matter what hole through fence was still way too small.
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Next thing military jeep arrived next to us. Armed Slovak border guards did jump off and we were arrested on the spot.
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After we were driven to the border guards base we were questioned and then told that since our pal from Brno did made a attempt to run over same border few nights ago that we won't be released so we were placed in to their jail and were waiting for our fate.
It had been some times at around five am next morning when several border guards did enter our cell tied our hands behind our back. Placed blind fold over our eyes and begun to be escorting us to unknown destination.
Once out of the building I was grabbed by several soldiers and was loaded on to the military truck.
I or my friends were not alowed to talk or ask any questions.
After that our truck did begun to be driving off.
After certain time I did loose the direction of our departure at first we were on the highway but eventually our truck did start driving on some dirt road.
Naively I did hope that they will drive us to some gate in fence and release us in to Austria.
But instead truck did stop we were unloaded from the truck and were walked from the dirt road on to some field what I believed was harvested corn field.
First soldiers did loaded their machine guns and were pretending that they will shoot us.
I knew that it was just a bluff.
But when I could hear several belt buckles star sliding on the military belts I knew well what was coming to us.
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I did scream to my friends - go down the ground we will get a beating. I was in the army and I knew what that sound was all about.
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Well when they were finished with us they did freed our hands and left us in that field driving back to their base. We were all covered in dirt and blood specially our faces but we were free.
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When we did return to our shack in wineyard we did give up for any additional attempts to get over any wire fences.
Our only option was to try to swim in Danube river on to the barge what was towed nightly through Slovakia from Hungary to Austria. Barges were loaded with coal where we would be able to hide.
Our trio did decided to take the risk despite of all dangers.
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And so next morning we went again in to same hardware store but this time I did buy the laundry cord. After that we went walk on the dyke toward the Austrian border selecting our selves best place for our entering in to the river.
Close to Bratislava I was able to se number of whirl poles bye the bank of the river. I was always afraid of them despite to that I was never sucked to one of them.
After that we went for lunch and spend our time downtown till night doing nothing.
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When the dark came we did begun to be walking to our selected place where we did our last strategy.
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Our plan was to leave one piece of our clothing hidden on shore in the case that we will not make it that we will detach our selves from each other from the laundry cord. Then swim beck to shore on our own and then retrieve our clothing next morning to show to others that we did made it alive in out of the river.
Then we tie our selves two on the ends and one in the middle and begun to be waiting for the barges.
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We were all dressed had our shoes on and had all our documents sealed in plastic bags on our bodies.
At first we did hear the tag boat blowing a it's horn before entering the Bratislava. After that we were listening for the sound of the motors and judging how far they were from us down the stream.
Eventually we did decidet that it would be a time for us to enter in to the river and so we did.
Swimming in to the center of the river.
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When you are submerged to your head in water it is very difficult to judge the distances.
We did not wanted to get in direct pass of the tag boat so we would not get sucked down by the propeller and get killed..
So for time being we were just floating.
Finely tag boat was in front of us. We must heve been close enough for the crew to see us because they did begun to be shinning spot lights on to us.
We were for time trying to swim in under water then serviced and gone on.
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What we were not anticipating was that tag boat did begun to be creating waves what were carrying us way from the approaching two barhes what the tag boat had in tow.
When the first barge became in front of us we were pretty far away. Barge for it.s load did begun to be creating new set of much larger waves.
Despite of all our efforts second barge sailed bye and we were stuck in the river.
Time to get separated and get back to shore.
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At the beginning we were able to see each other but soon we did drifted apart so we were letting know each other by caling each other - I am here I am here.
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I was concentrating on to the black outline of the shore. All otherwise I was able to see was black water with reflection of million stars and bubbles.
Propeller from the tag boat was creating billion of bubbles what were floating down the stream all around me.
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And then in first did begun to be screaming for help Brnak. By my estimation he was way behind me and way down the stream.
Then it was young guy from Prague who did also start screaming for help.
He did sound to be closer to me but also way behind in the river.
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I was afraid to swim in to his direction because I too was beginning to be loosing my powers and cold water did begun to be effecting me.
Then suddenly in front of me did appear wooden platform I did grab on to it and pooled my self out of the river.
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That night I was the only one who did return back in to the shack in vineyard. Next morning I was very worry when I did dicover that pieces of clothing left behind by my friends were not removed.
But to my luch on my way to Bratislava I did run in to the young guy from Prague. He was poled out from the river by the young guys from Ziskova Skola. ( military school )
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Sadly our friend from Brno never made it.
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