PhDr. Jaroslav Mucha

„Daddy was politically same as the Sokol members fundamentally against the regime. Totally against the regime. Also when they came to the festival of Sokols in 1948, father drove everyone from Kostelec, so obviously they visited the president Beneš in Sezimovo Ústí to support him. There were huge manifestations. Later when they returned from Kostelec, they had much inconvenience.“

„The punishment was not very strict, an imprisonment for five or seven years so in average around one year. Everyone was sentenced, my father for around a year plus a fee. I don’t know if ten or twenty thousand, it was something like that. And so he went to prison. In Prostějov there was a court of justice and a prison. And in the prison he was sentenced and experienced it. I haven’t been there so I don’t know the circumstances. When the trial began, and the prison ended, then there was the punishment my father had to leave his job. As I said he was in a cooperative named Družstevní podnik hostinský, he worked as an accountant and could have stayed there, but later he could only be a jumper.“