Totality must never return
Václav Kodytek was born in 1953 as the third child in the family of farmer Vojtěch Kodytek. At the end of the war, two Soviet soldiers from Bandera group, were hiding in their forest, who helped in the forest nursery for a little food. Some of the neighbors reported them and they were taken away and executed. After 1948, someone reported Vojtěch Kodytek again for allegedly storing weapons. State security searched their house and interrogated him for two days and two nights. The police found nothing in the house and the landowner did not know anything, so he was released. Vojtěch Kodytek was a progressive landowner who studied new methods and improved his farm, he teamed up with two other farmers and bought farm machinery. It worked for them together and they all prospered. So Kodytek thought that it would work similarly in a unified agricultural cooperative, but he was wrong. In 1968, the return of private farming was considered, but after the entry of the Warsaw Pact troops, everything was different. For Vojtěch Kodytek, it was a very hard disappointment and the end of all hopes. He died in 1984 and did not live to see the restitution of the family property after 1989. His son Václav and his family applied for the property. Forests and fields were reclaimed, livestock and machinery were compensated.