Marie Jančová

"For him as a husband, how should I put it, that year forty-eight started badly there because they had a big farm. There was a big drought in 1947, they didn't produce, and on top of that, they lost cattle. That was the foot and mouth disease, it was rampant, so they lost cattle, they didn't produce, and they couldn't meet those deliveries as they were prescribed. Even though they tried to replace them with something else, they couldn't because his father was labeled as a subversive of the republic. And so he didn't have, they couldn't fulfill those deliveries and stuff like that. And they started being prosecuted from that forty-eighth year."

"So, that was at home with my parents, when they were having such a hard time as they were enlarging the farm, well, they didn't want to join that agricultural cooperative, especially not my mother, because they were putting money into it. And we, as children, were earning money, so we contributed that money to them. To pay for it, without debts. Back then you couldn't go and loan because nobody would guarantee it, everybody was afraid. Well, what could be bought was bought. But he wanted the farm to be a little bigger. Well, they came, they talked him into it, into the agricultural cooperative. And then, after a long time, Dad handed it over quietly and peacefully. And he went to work in that agricultural cooperative."