Disagreement with the August occupation made a culture worker turn into a cleaning lady
Zdeňka Kristová, born Dupalová, was born on September 9, 1944 in Říčany near Brno to parents Karl and Zdeňka Dupal. There she also graduated from elementary school, after which she studied small-scale arts at the Secondary School of Arts and Crafts in Brno. With a high school diploma, she received a job at the regional museum in Mikulov and joined the youth union. In 1966 she went to study in Moscow for a year. After returning in 1967, she joined the culture department of the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Youth Union. In this way, she became acquainted with the folklore that accompanied her throughout her life. In 1965 she joined the Communist Party. She was expelled by the party in 1970 for disapproving of the Warsaw Pact invasion. The same fate befell her husband, the important Czech folklorist Jan Miroslav Krist (1932–2007), who later was not allowed to lead folklore ensembles. In 2021, Zdeňka Kristová lived in Brno.