Alena Burianová

“Yet someone leaked the information and when my father was returning, he was arrested in České Budějovice. And you may say it was a bit childish, but I was terribly angry at everything at the time. When we went to the school up the theatre, once there were four of us at the Three Crosses and there was a sign: ,With the Soviet Union for eternal times‘, that kind... So we broke the lights, which didn’t pay off as you would not believe but they tried us at court for that. So we each got two years suspended sentence. And when I tried to search the documents back in 1989 and I had acquaintance at the court, but everything was already destroyed, nothing at all left.”

“First we ran from Prague from Germans, so that we would not get to any kind of trouble, and with the end of war we ran from Mokrovraty back to Prague as our house was standing alone near the forest and our brothers, the Russian soldiers, moved in around us. As we had a well, they tore pieces of wood from our fence off and used to feed their horses to our house. They even dragged my mother our and we had to run from there, as eve in Hraštice, which is a station nearby, an old lady came to a very bad end, and actually she was Russian living here for a long time. So in fact we were moving around the country all the time.”