František Kopecký

"The establishment of an agricultural cooperative has come into play. In our country it happenned quite late in 1957. I was ten years old and I remember the job well before. It was just like when you watch the movie [All good natives], exactly like that. And when Frantik signs it, we will also sign... and if he does not sign, we will not sign up. Threats - your children will not be able to go anywhere. We'll give you the land of felds right next to the woods. Because we had fields quite a distance from the forest, so there was quite good ground there. Those were not bad fields, our parents saved each crown to buy them, and when they repaid the debts, the the coop took place. We'll give you the fields in the forest with all the stones, and we'll give you big contingents, those weree mandatory levy, the supplies that were collected. They threatened, sufficated us, and finally daddy said, "Okay." on informal terms, he told him: "You know, Frantik, that we have a lot of power to do all this." And be careful, because that can happen at any time in the society. That's just the way people do and we need to be careful."

"Then we had some troubles with the new comrade director. As today we do not like to remember those time, and some of us would rather not hear of that, but I do not know, if you learnt at school, who were the flaggers...? It was a certain anti-fashist group. In my birthplace some people changed sides in a very short while and then they became the tough comrades. That´s how the history went on. For me it was the toughest that one of them sang. As in the village, how many men do you think could sing? And back then for example they sang at the Easter. Passion. So one of them sang, but if he had only sung the Judas character, but he actually sang the Christ..."