"That was in 1947 - they decided, the mixed committee, the Czechoslovak-Russian committee decided [it was an agreement with the USSR from the 10th of July 1946 to allow Volhynian Czechs to resettle - ed.], that we Volhynians should move into the German border regions, into German places [that is into the Sudetes to replace the deported Germans - ed.]. The transports started already soon after New Year's Day in 1947. But somehow we, they took us towards the end, so we found in Bochov, in Bochov in something like a gulag, and that's where we looked for a home. We found [a house] in Chyše, we were two families there, that couldn't work well. So there was this valley alongside the Střela, the Střela leading to Rabštejn, so we went along there and we met up with our Czechs. They had been given farms, but they didn't know how to work them. When the cows got lice, they rubbed them with paraffin, and the cows got an awful rash from the paraffin. And so the farming committee had them evicted, and we moved in instead. Or me at least. And that's where we founded the co-op in 1950. We moved in from Ukraine in the forty-seventh, managed ourselves for three years, and then founded the co-op. And straight away, because we had our good Czechs there, good workers, but no managers. They were rustics with nomadic ways [?] and so on. So I was the, it wasn't called agriculturist yet, the foreman. So I was the foreman. And, well, fine. A small co-op, but fine. A fine co-op. We had to join the state farm in the sixty-third, when they did all the merging. I didn't like that. They merged me too, took me on as a technician. First off I was the foreman of our farm, for fifteen hundred a month. Then I, I drove the tractor, even though I didn't know how, I had to learn how to drive it with tracks. But that way I earned four-and-a-half, five thousand crowns."