The whole square was clad in red
The nineteen-year-old Karel Vavřínek was arrested in May, 1949. He was charged with the publishing and distributing of anti-communist leaflets called “Voices of the Silenced”. His arrest was precipitated by his correspondence with a friend in Slovakia. “The Voices of the Silenced were published in Slovakia as well. Basically they would reprint our issues. The Slovak group was arrested at some point and then they clamped down on us, too.” The investigation of the group that counted over forty members took place in the Slovak town of Ružomberk and was supposed to be concluded by a trumped-up trial. After his arrest in Plzeň, Karel was escorted to Ružomberok. “A police officer escorted me on a train to Ružomberk. I remember that we had to change trains in Prague – we walked from one train station to another. He escorted me in handcuffs, my arms were chained and we walked across the Wenceslas Square. It was all clad in red, a communist rally was just taking place there. It was a weird ending.”
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