Jana Bartošová

My mom had a relapse, and because I did not want to leave her anywhere in the hospital land, I wanted to take care of her, so we returned with our son to Prague. I switched him here to school. And I served my mother at home till the end. And that was a shock at the time, because I carried the papers here to the doctor, and when she read it, she said, "Well, what do you want to do at home with her? Do you really think I will be coming to you for injections?" I said, Doctor, no, they trained me in the hospital, I will inject the morphine and everything. I went to Břevnov, there was a specialized pharmacy. I cared for nights. She did not come to see her not even once before she died.

In the ROH Factory Committee, I did over the youth, and I took care for the kids. And suddenly the ROH was called for meeting, and now they were informed that this incident had happened, and that no one would be, who would simply attack a deserving Communist, to hurt him. Because the guy picked up and went to the doctor we had in the factory, and he had put him in there that he suffered ..the man to give him a couple of slaps, probably, having suffered a slight jolt of the brain, and he actually put it in quotes like the doctor was scared to stand up to him and say no, nothing happened to you, so in a way he doubted a bit that it was not true. But, this gentleman who was at the incident just sat down and wrote a testimony, he said, I'm just not going to be here, it just cannot be done, and it's just staffing. And as a result, they called the ROH Factory Committee and then summoned some Communist unit there, and they then lectured there that there was no one to insult a merciful communist and gave us an hourly notice, and that the legal department must find such paragraph to simply give him an hourly notice from the factory. And there's another comrade just got up saying "hope that he would not go to CKD and get a better paid job there than he had here" and that lawyer said "do not worry, this paragraph will not even get to the dikes." And now the Factory Committee voted and I was against it, and like I was saying if I could say something, and I just said I could not imagine that this guy would hurt somebody, that I knew him, that in 69 after school I knew him, and that I've been knowing him for 10 years, and he was a very good guy, never to tell someone harsh word, I've never seen him raise his voice, and he´s got a problem, the lying wife and the daughter ending the elementary school . Look, it was so terrible, like you do not say anything like you're not recognized there, yeah. And now, basically, I voted, and I was against. And when they ended the Factory committee, they said "Comrade Hodinková, do not think that when you were against, you would go now and tell everybody that you did not agree."