Růžena Lebedová

"No fun, the adults didn't have that, it was all forbidden. And in the evening they had to black out the windows. Some people didn't have enough food either, so they went around the countryside and everybody helped them when they could. When there were air raids on Kolín, on Pardubice, they had to black out everywhere. As a child, it wasn't easy for us. We already understood that in 1945 it was the end. And we imagined that everything would be rosy. But it wasn't. "

"They took my parents to the cooperative farm. Those who were with the Germans then joined the communists and founded cooperative farms. They brought my dad in the municipal office, kept him there until night unless he signed. That was, they gave the fields, everything, they took the cattle. Everything was put into this cooperative farm. And then my parents, they were already over seventy, they still had to go to work, because they had 400 crowns of pension each."