Elfriede Šulková

"And otherwise here… Even here there was a pretty big communist and so were his boys. And one was quite a high rank with the police. And when my aunt - my mother's sister - had to leave, a man fell in the war. He did not fall, he remained in captivity in Germany after the war. And my aunt, because she carried his name, had to follow him. And he was a dentist, and he wanted to see if she could bring dental books along with her or certain things he might need. So Grandma told the policeman, and he went to the square in Nečtiny, where those who had been evicted were gathering. He stepped to the trunk and said, 'Show me what you got there.' So his aunt showed him, and when the commission came, he said, 'It's checked, there's nothing there.' He sealed it and she could export it. It was among them, even though he was a communist or his father's… There were some bright exceptions too. ’”

"And my husband had to join the Communist Party. Otherwise you won't get points for the apartment, so he went… And then he argued with them for he wouldn't pay such marks that were too expensive, so they expelled him. They could fire him, but expelling him was just the worst offense! And when Ríša started school, he wanted to go to forestry school. He didn't get it, and when we went to ask why they didn't take him, well, Dad was expelled from the party. And a certain madame at the office in Škoda, in Tylovka, said: 'He must have been a subversive element.' "