Hodonín, Výstavní Street No. 4
the place where an StB agent was murdered · Výstavní, 695 01 Hodonín, Czech Republic
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They shot a policeman, he didn't want to surrender

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The police lieutenant and state security (StB) agent Alois Dyčka was awaited by two resistance fighters – Vetejška and Bušek – in front of his house in Hodonín. They had waited until it became dark. Dyčka arrived in his car, parked in front of the house, got out and opened the heavy door to the courtyard. He left the headlamps on. At that moment, Vetejška and Bušek, who had been standing about fifty meters away from the house, began walking towards their target. In order not to raise Dyčka's suspicion, they were whistling some tune. Both held their pistols in their hands hidden in the pockets of their coats. Vetejška pulled out his gun and fired two shots in the back of the SNB lieutenant, who was just pushing the wooden door. This is the account of the event as given by the StB investigation file. Witnesses, who cooperated with the resistance fighters and who later had an opportunity to speak to them, claim, that in fact Vetejška asked Dyčka to put his hands up. Dyčka, however, turned sharply around and pulled his pistol, which he would always keep readily at hand. Bušek was standing about two meters away from Dyčka on the other side and was aiming at the StB agent. Vetejška fired and hit Dyčka, who stumbled and leaned with his full weight on the door. The door gave in and opened with a creak. Dyčka returned fire and hit Vetejška in the jaw. More shots were fired and hit the bonnet and the headlights of the car, eliminating the only light in the street. At that moment, Bušek fired and hit Dyčka with two shots in the stomach and the chest. The wounded Vetejška ran toward Slavíkova Street, located about one hundred meters away from the site of the shooting. He found himself in an open space and thus became a perfect target. Bušek ran across the street and hid in a house on the opposite side of the street. Dyčka fired one shot at Vetejška but missed. The hidden Bušek fired back, missed, and the second shot jammed itself in the chamber of the gun. The mortally wounded Dyčka fell on the ground on the sidewalk. Bušek got out of the house where he was hiding and caught up with Vetejška. The scouts from Dolní Bojanovice and anti-communist resistance fighters, former political prisoners Petr Vymyslický and Pavel Hubačka, claim that the plan was to kidnap Dyčka. They wanted to put him on a car and take him to Austria, where he would be put before the court. Both of them were involved in this event. Vymyslický's task was to watch Dyčka's car in front of the oil works in Hodonín: "If his car stood in front of the plant, I would tell Vetejška. If it wasn't there, I was supposed to go home. But when I got there, Dyčka was just getting inside the car and leaving, so I biked home", says Vymyslický. According to him, Vetejška and Bušek made a mistake, as they didn't start shooting right away, if they really wanted to kill him. Pavel Hubačka says that he was waiting near to the site with a car, ready to take the kidnapped Dyčka away. However, he doesn't want to reveal who and in which way was supposed to help them taking Dyčka abroad: "It's too sensitive. To this day, there are people - former members of the state security – alive, who might want to retaliate", explains Hubačka, who treated the wounded Vetejška after the action. He pulled out the bullet with a screwdriver from the head of the unconscious Vetejška in a basement.

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Radomír Silber
2019-02-15 18:37:54
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Pavel Hubačka and Petr Vymyslický

Pavel Hubačka and Petr Vymyslický

For the murder of Alois Dyčka, the state security put 14 people on trial. The sentences handed out included death penalties or thirty-year terms in prison. Some members of the resistance group that carried out the assassination – like Pavel Hubačka and Petr Vymyslický – went to the scout together in Dolní Bojanovice. Pavel was a scout leader and was responsible for the children in the troop. He had to leave for two years as he was drafted for compulsory military service and thus his resistance group was taken over by Jaroslav Vetejška, a deserter who brought along with him several other friends from Hodonín. The scouts helped Vetejška and three others to cross the border to Austria, where their new leader received training of the French intelligence services and came back a few months later as an agent. His task was to create new resistance groups and gather information about the communist economy without employing violence and military action. Then Vetejška learned from the informer Mojmír Bečka that the StB agent Dyčka was suspicious about the resistance fighters and he decided to eliminate him. Vetejška announced to the scouts in a vein reminiscent of traditional conspiracy, that he would abduct Dyčka abroad. Bušek – a young man whom the others knew by his nickname "Čikin" – would help him in carrying out his plan. Pavel Hubačka carried out the surgery of Vetejška when he removed the bullet from Vetejška's face with a screwdriver. Vetejška fainted during the surgery. Then he hid the wounded Vetejška at the place of some elderly people in the village. Only Jenda Topenčík, a friend of Hubačka, knew exactly where it was. But later on, Topenčík allegedly made a major mistake. Immediately after the shooting, an unprecedented search operation of the StB unraveled in the region. Topenčík got scared and secretly took Vetejška – disguised as his girl-friend – to the place of some other friends of him. However, the locals knew that Topenčík had no girlfriend and some local member of the union gave him away – he admitted this to Hubačka many years later. This squealer apparently wasn't the first one to talk. It took the StB two days to round up almost all of the members of the so-called "dolnobojanovická" group. The first one to be arrested was the informer Bečka and a friend of him. At the time of the shooting, they were sitting in a local tavern in Hodonín. When honking and flashing police cars were passing the inn, they ordered another round of drinks and loudly toasted to the health of the StB agent Dyčka. The innkeeper heard this and in fear reported it to the police. "Opposite to the inn was the seat of the district national committee, where the StB had an investigation room. They dragged them across the street and literally thrashed the names of the other group members out of them. I then ended up on one prison cell with that friend of Bečka. He was such a traitor! He said directly in front of me to the StB agent: 'Mr. commander, but you said that you'd let me go home if I gave you the names!' The STB agent yelled at him to shut up and punched him in his face so hard that he fell down from the chair", recalls Vymyslický, who was sentenced to twenty years by the court. Pavel Hubačka was tortured in Uherské Hradiště – he was given the so-called "medieval torture", which ensured Grebeníček and the rest of the punchers' notoriety all around the world. Foreign broadcast later on informed the world about the torture of the prisoners. Pavel Hubačka was afterwards sentenced to 30 years in prison for high treason and espionage. He served 14 years in prison.

Hodonín, Výstavní Street No. 4

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The house No. 4 in Výstavní Street in Hodonín was home to an StB agent and according to witnesses former Gestapo informer Alois Dyčka. On the evening of January 4, 1950, he was shot in a fierce shootout by anti-Communist resistance fighters, reportedly the courier Jaroslav Vetejška and his associate Antonín Bušek. The house, in front of which the gunfight took place, has been demolished, but it is probable that used to be located across from present-day house No. 3.

Hodonín, Výstavní Street No. 4

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