Stanislav Češka

"According to the law, dad ought not have to be nationalized, because at that time the applicable law said that it was possible to nationalize only the companies that employed more than 50 employees. The father had a maximum of ten employees, so of course, in Lišov, the party authorities again merged the seven carpenter companies all of the same. They all had around ten employees. Then they got over those fifty people and got nationalized by the same nationalization decree, all seven companies at once. So, by the way, as I said, we lost everything, all our property. My father only had debts, which he'd paid until the retirement."

"Of course we did not get any weapons, because we were not reliable, which we learned at start, when they told us that the weapons can not be given to us that we are placed in a camp, where they will try to re-educate us and make us better people, not such hostile people for the regime and so on. So that's how I started and then we were divided into various troops over the republic, so in the three Sundays that we spent in Mimoň, we just greeted: "Comrade, hi, comrade, turn left or right.' And then we went straight to the first stop."