The Soviets were shooting at a kindergarten full of children, we did not understand why
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Květa Pagáčová, née Vosátková, was born on 15 February 1949 in Prague. Her mother Božena was a shop assistant, her father František was a barber, later he worked as a janitor and a boiler operator in various buildings. Květa grew up with her seven years older sister Božena. The Vosátek family lived in Úvaly, Hloubětín, Senohraby and then again in Prague. Her parents were members of the Communist Party. Květa graduated from the Secondary Pedagogical School in Beroun, and worked as a teacher and later as a headmistress in a kindergarten, and after graduating from a second pedagogical school, in 1983 she started working as a first-grade teacher in a primary school in Úvaly. She was also a leader in an ornithological club and a Young Pioneers group there. After the Warsaw Pact invasion in 1968, she witnessed Soviet soldiers shooting at a kindergarten in Prague 9 - Miskovice in autumn of the same year, but fortunately no one was injured. Květa Pagáčová was not interested in politics and did not join the party, but she believed in the Communist Party until November 1989. Since 1968 she was married to Ivan Pagáč with whom she raised two daughters. Her book of short stories, Doteky jiného světa (Touches of Another World), was published in 2010.
