Václav Kodytek

"So one day, several cars of State Security came to the farm, it was evening, I remember that they said it was in the evening hours. And they came at him saying that he had weapons, that he should hand them over immediately, that this was not allowed and so on, and they began to search the house. They found nothing in the rooms where they were. So they arrested the father and took him for questioning, and the wife, my mother, remained there. The other policemen continued to search. The father was taken straight to Prague, to Pankrác, where the prison and the court and the authorities around it are known to this day. There they interrogated him for two nights and two days, only gave him water and bread, they didn't give him anything else, and one policeman after another kept changing, and they always wanted to get something out of him that would suggest the fact that he did some anti-state activity, or that he owned weapons. But he didn't admit anything, because he had nothing to admit. In short, they had to end the interrogations."

"At that time, it was already happening that there were already soldiers moving around Czechoslovakia who were no longer directly organized. And, among other things, at the end of the Second World War, two soldiers in the forest near my parents, near my father, dug a dugout on the Russian model and started to hide there. Since my father's parents also had a forest nursery in the forest, they went there a lot to work, especially in the spring months. And while they were working in the nursery, the Russian soldiers suddenly were hungry. They somehow they weren't scared, they weren't armed, they weren't mean to them, the Russian soldiers, so the parents weren't scared. Rather, they somehow agreed to bring them some food, and they, the Russian soldiers, went to help them in that forest nursery. To dig trees, to plant, while working in the forest. Their parents would sometimes bring them some food for that, so that they would have something to eat, to eat and to live."