If it hadn‘t been for February 1948, I‘d have been well off
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Albína Charvátová, née Slípková, was born on 23 February 1937 in České Budějovice. She remembers experiences from the war, for example the bombing of Budějovice in March 1945 or the suicide of the then mayor of Budějovice, Mr. David, in May 1945, which she saw with her own eyes. Her father had a shoe workshop in Budějovice, which was nationalized by the communists. Moreover, his parents lost their savings as a result of the currency reform in 1953. She has lived in České Budějovice all her life, so she lived through the occupation in August 1968, the demonstrations on its anniversary in August 1969 and the events of the Velvet Revolution. In 1969 her sister emigrated to the USA and for 20 years they kept in touch only through letters. Albina did not visit her sister until after the Velvet Revolution. She worked all her life in the Igla needle factory.