Ing. Vladimír Buřt

“They moved my grandmother's sister to Chomutov and a year later, when demolishing came to the place where my grandmother lived – and where we had lived as children, where we grew up, the place we loved the most – they moved them to Most. Not only was the landscape and this beautiful village – beautiful in every sense of the word – destroyed, communities and family relationships were also divided.”

“Obviously I know that all kinds of monstrosities took place during that time… but I think that the fate of this region is among the worst of what they caused… because, it wasn't just about demolishing villages and towns, about turning hundreds of square kilometres of that gorgeous… so gorgeous land upside down, but they also hit tens of thousands of people right in the heart. Because they divided what had been growing since the war…”