A blood-stained flag
On 21 August, 1968, the Boy Scout Petr "Kim" Maišaidr went out on the street with a scout fleur-de-lis, a tricolor badge attached to his lapel, and the national flag of Czechoslovakia wrapped around the waist under his shirt. He was on his way to the Czechoslovak Broadcast building in Prague's Vinohrady quarter to join his fellow citizens in the protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the forces of the Warsaw Pact. "I lost my flag while I was helping with the erection of the barricades. I didn't even notice it at that point, but later, when I was in the agitation center in Balbínova Street, I took a new one." During the clash between occupation troops and the citizens at the Broadcast building several people got shot. "I soaked that national flag in the blood of four people who had died at the broadcast and whose bodies lay in the courtyard entry of one of the houses in Balbínova Street. Since then, all the Scouts from our troop have taken their Scout oath on this flag."
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