Valerij Doležal

“I forgot to say she received a villa. Confiscate - a huge villa in a nice neighbourhood in Brno in Cernovice with a garden, with everything possible. But it was in the 50s, and she became scared. The party members destroyed each other, fought among themselves. So she made, according to herself, sensible, in my opinion totally insane step, that she offered the villa to a nursery. And we got a two-room apartment in Brno, which cannot be compared to the villa. And she went to live in a one-room gallery house in Kopecna Street in old Brno. She must have been really afraid, she was willing to abandon this. "

“My father's mother took her small children and went to the bare steppe in Central Asia. By the way, there was also the family of Alexander Dubcek and Julius Fucik. There she raised them and founded a union cooperative. When they founded it, it was all their personal property. They got the land and so on, but that was all. There was nothing else. Of course, I can't remember that, because I still wasn't born back then. Allegedly, it was very hard there. My father grew up there. My mother came directly from Leningrad, from an aristocratic family. My grandfather was a sea captain or an admiral. I have never seen him in my life, I have not met him. The maternal grandmother was a dentist. ”