Radomil Lhotka

"You know, we were moving and we were scared. There were such logs in the attic - we did not dare to take them so that nobody could snitch that we had taken something away. We were paying the rent, you know. So we were afraid to take something. So we only brought here what was undisputedly ours. Everything was actually ours but we were afraid."

"And dad started the cinema, it was pretty popular. But then it was nationalised, dad stayed there as the projector operator because nobody else was able to do it. When dad needed to go somewhere, a projector operator frlom Ledeč had to come because in Zahrádka, nobody else could do that and they did not have cinema operator certificate either. So dad stayed in the cinema and they nationalised all our property and we had to pay rent in our own house."

“On the 12th of September of 1954, the district representative of the Ministry of Supply Acquisition Janák and his aide Alt negotiated supply of grain in the smallholding of farmer Vacková in Hojanovice. During the negotiation, the defendant Helena Hojdová arrived and when she found out what was going on, she joined in hte debate and then, from the hallway to the house, she pronounce towards Alt, who stood at the stairs to the house, this utterance: ‚If you didn‘t have this f...ing régime, people would give willingly. But this way, they will give nothing.‘ Said utterance was also heard by the district representative Josef Janák who stood in the yard about three metres away from the car and negotiated with Vacková. The defendant claimed during her interrogation that she does not remember what she had said because the acquisition workers negotiated with Mrs. Vacková, who is ill with high blood pressure, rheumatism and has nerve issues, for which the defendant provided needed medication, and that apart from Alt, nobody heard said utterance. The court found out via the statement of Janák that the defendant moreover added: ‚that the people would be stupid if they would give to this régime, that they would rather provide for another régime than this one.‘“

"Imagine, you build a house and out of sudden, there is a stranger taking over your place and you're living there, barely tolerated. They placed tenants in our house. Just all that stuff... Dad had to keep it inside and it had to be getting on his nerves and it lead to mental issues and then to apoplexy, stroke."