My eye fell out of my socket

After the events in February 1948, Boy Scout Leopold Färber, with the nickname Hurvínek, took part in various activities aimed at undermining the authority of the Communist regime. In May 1950 he was arrested and then escorted to the prison in Pilsen. “When you first arrived to Bory, you had to undress completely. We were undressing on one side and the prison clothes were prepared on the other side. We got short pants, the others had long pants, coats... My accomplice, Josef Marek, was standing next to me and said: ‘We ended up in a real shithole, right?!’ We had no idea the warden had been watching us. Then they took us to our cells, solitary cells. And then it all started. The warden came up to me and said: ‘So, have you been beaten here?’ And I said: ‘No, what for?’ And he was just bam, bam, bam, beating me.” The next day, this renowned sadist, officer Václav Brabec, was on duty again. He had asked Leopold Färber once again: “’Have you been beaten here?’ – ‘Well, you beat me, yesterday!’ – ‘Whaaat?!’ He beat me up. After some time he was on duty again, he came into the cell, but I had known better and stayed quiet. He was beating me again, but by accident he touched my glass eye which fell out of my socket and started to roll down the cell.” Leopold Färber got his glass eye after he lost his own eye in an accident. “It was a shock for officer Brabec. He looked at me with dismay, walked out of my cell and he never again dared to touch me.”