"The fact that it was handed to them clean, with a signed protocol - alive and done. No, Russian - out, destroy, break. If you know what horrors were here - I can find photos too, there was heating, old windows, everything had to be restored. Everything was ripped out, broken. And it was like that in every apartment. Wherever they went in, the doors were broken, the end. I have in this notebook all the people who came here, they were already rich people in Russia, they just came to see the places of military glory. And they sent them straight to me. The Russians come to me. And they told me that they left crystal chandeliers there. It had to be a clean flat, whitewashed."
"Well, then another very interesting incident happened. That was around the time when I started my business. Two young people came to me accompanied by a friend from the restaurant. And they asked me if I could accompany these people to Russia. They already had a good position here and they wanted to go because Kellner had such an advertisement that everything was free in Russia, that we were all stupid there - Russians are stupid and don't know what business is. And they wanted to start a business there too, so they could see and have ideas. Because Kellner had a classmate in economics school, I don't remember. I went with them in 1993 in a Peugeot 6, the two of them, with a gun license, with a gun. We were driving to Yaroslavl. Two men and me, the interpreter. They taught me how to speak, how to conduct a meeting, what multi-level communication is, what non-verbal communication is. They sat opposite me, never sat next to me, they recorded it on a dictaphone - at every meeting they came to. I found companies that were starting businesses. Because at that time there were already students in Russia who had studied in America and Europe, everywhere. They came, and they started doing business with everything. Copying technology, computers - it was a boom then."
"On the third or fourth day they put me in a car - a small ambulance - and drove me for two hours. Where, why? Nobody told me. I started crying, I was stressed. They brought me to Jaroměř, to a barracks like here - Austro-Hungarian barracks. Three and a half meter ceiling. One room, even colder, a military blanket. I had a hysterical fit: 'Why did I come here? What was I missing at home?' The next day someone came in and said, 'Come on, you're going to work as a waitress.' I said, 'No, I'm not going to work as a waitress.' He rolled his eyes: 'What kind of resistance is that?' I said, 'I have an education, I don't want to work as a waitress.' 'You're going to say what you want and what you don't want?! The order has come, and that's it, obey it and don't resist!' I said, 'Excuse me, send me home.' 'What? What home? The state gave money for you!' 'What money? I didn't ask anyone for anything!'"
Tamara Jelínková was born in 1957 in the former Soviet Union, in the village of Turděj in the Volovsky district of the Tula region. Her mother was a Ukrainian from Zhitomir, her father was a Russian from the village of Yefimovo in the Tula region. The witness graduated from the Zhitomyr Technical School of Soviet Trade. She worked as a master of industrial training. In 1981, she came to Czechoslovakia as a civilian employee of the Soviet Army and worked as a cook at the Military Hospital of the Central Group of Troops in Kostelec nad Černými lesy. In 1984, she married a Czech, Jiří Jelínek, in Milovice, received documents to reunite with her family and engaged in private business: transporting goods from Czechoslovakia to the Soviet Union and back. She graduated from the secondary business school in Poděbrady. She divorced her husband in 1989, worked as a cook in the canteen of the Nymburk Sports Centre and in 1991 as a cook at the Nymburk Municipal Office. Since 1993, she has been engaged in business - she sold Russian textiles in the Letná market, supplied Czech turbochargers for a car plant in Yaroslavl, and opened five second hand shops in Nymburk and Milovice. Since 2004, it has been buying up former Soviet houses and barracks in Milovice and surrounding villages and is involved in development projects. In 2005 she opened a restaurant and hotel U Jelínků in Milovice.
