Jaroslav Sixta

„Komunisti opravdu... to bylo na poslední chvíli - vešli čtyři komunisti a čtyři policajti, abychom jim dali vkladní knížky a zlato, a že nebudou nic hledat. Výsledek byl ten, že moje maminka řekla, když stála za mým mladším bratrem: 'Tady je moje zlato,' a ukázala na mého mladšího bratra, čím vlastně nelhala ani trochu. Moje maminka upozornila jednoho z komunistů: ‚Co jste se k nám nachodil za války! To jsme vám byli dobří. S vajíčky, s mlékem, s máslem, a teď najednou vy se chováte k nám takto špatně.‘ A on odpověděl: ‚Paní, časy se mění, časy se mění.‘ A mému otci byla dána malá bumážka velikosti A5, v níž bylo napsáno několika větami, že se statek zabírá se vším příslušenstvím a že my se musíme vystěhovat do pěti dnů a že se budeme stěhovat na náš výminek.“ "The communists really... it was at the last moment - four communists and four policemen walked in, that we should give them the deposit books and gold and they won't search for anything. The result was such that my mother, standing behind my younger brother, said: 'Here is my gold,' and pointed to my younger brother, by which she really wasn't lying not even the slightest bit. She warned one of the communists: 'Oh how often you came during the war! We were good to you then. With eggs, with milk, with butter, and now suddenly you're being so horrible towards us.' And he replied: 'Misses, the times change, oh the times change.' And they handed my father a small document of about size A5, in which there was in a few sentences written, that the estate with all its equipment was being seized and that we would have to move out within five days and that we'll be moving onto our replacement."

"And so it came to pass that on the 16 April 1951 the peasants were gathered in the local high school and there the communist committee professed that, due to collectivisation, the peasants will be relocated from their homes. In the committee, that sat at the front, was also a friend of my father's, who had used to often play chess with him, and he towards the end went to the bathroom and told my father to follow him. In the bathroom he warned my father: 'Don't go back in the room, run home quickly. We'll be looking for gold and deposit books!' That's what he told my mother. There was a great confusion in the apartment; we were trying to find where we could stash everything. We had very little time left, so in the end we hid all the deposit books and all the gold with my younger brother Přemysl in his pants, in his pockets."