Helena Mastná

“Well, it was terrible, because they thought my dad had too big a farm, so they decided to evict us. But they didn't succeed as everyone else... Our dad helped people a lot when they needed it. For example, with a cow to calve, to have a calf and it didn't work, so he went to help them. And he tried to help everywhere, so the people said: 'He didn't hurt us, so we won't move him.' And they didn't sign it. Well, I got married after that, so I couldn't observe the situation around there anymore.“

"Nobody wanted to go there voluntarily, so they took all of dad's machines he had, that is a self-loader, a turner and a tractor, and left it all to rust somewhere in the rain, and dad had to work with pitchforks and rakes by himself. All the workers who were with us were recalled somewhere else, so we had to do everything ourselves. And especially my little brother, he worked same as an adult from the age of 14."