Everything broke down in the 1950s
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Dagmara Pavlátová was born on March 11, 1939 in Údráž in southern Bohemia into the family of the owner of the estate. Her father Václav Hrdlička was also the mayor of Údráž from 1925 to 1948. The family was running a farm and adjacent fields continuously since 1760. In 1949, Václav Hrdlička lost his left arm as a result of an accident and in the early 1950s, despite being disabled, he had to join a newly emerging unified agricultural cooperative. In good faith, he donated the farm and all the fields to the cooperative. The family could initially stay in the residential part of the farm, but they were no longer allowed to farm. After two years, Václav Hrdlička was expelled from the team. The reason was that he did not work the prescribed number of hours. He was ordered to move out of the district with his entire family. They had to do so within 48 hours, and from day to day they found themselves without a background. They asked the then president to stay at least in a house they set as an extension house, but their request was denied. Neither Dagmara nor her brother were allowed to study based on their class background. The farm returned to the family in 1990 as part of restitution in a devastated state. The witness began the reconstruction, which required a lot of investment and lasted for almost twenty years. In 2018, she returned to her native farm after decades.
