It used to be said that it was going to last three years only, until 1951.
Eva Warausová was born to one of the biggest land owners in the area of Horní Počernice, Mr. Novák. Her parents spent all their money and time on the farm they had and so they never really had vacation. Therefore, young Eva spent her holidays with the family of professor Heyrovský and also with her grandmother and grandfather. From the time of the Second World War, she remembers best the grandfather‘s warning. During the First World War, he was a prisoner of war in Russia where he could learn local habits and culture. So he warned against celebrating the Soviet liberators as their reign could be similar as the German one for us. Soon, the whole family was about to learn it. At the very end of the war, her father‘s family was strongly hit by the Allied bombing of Statenice. There, her father and sister were injured with permanent consequences. As everyone else, they ran to hide in the fields as they believed that the pilots were going to target the buildings and factories. Instead, fractionate bombs fell on the field and caused many deaths and injuries. Upon returning to Horní Počernice, they found their home inhabited by Russian soldiers. Meeting them was a cultural shock for the family. Besides crushing their cut glasses after drinking alcohol, the soldiers didn‘t know how to use water from a water tap. In 1949, the family lost its farms. Mr. Novák knew the Communists would not allow him to run the household so he thought he could improve his situation by selling his property voluntarily. But he had to give up all his property as a so called „sale without payment“, when the state took over the farms but didn‘t compensate Mr. Novák at all. Instead, he had to pay a high millionaire tax for the rest of his life. After his death, the tax had to be paid by his descendants, even by his grandson. The goal was obvious - elimination of the farmer class. For this purpose, even the levies that had to be paid were designed in such a way that no one could make it. Soon enough, the family had to leave their apartment and was moved to another house. There, they had to live in poor conditions, sharing toilets and suffering from incessant cold. They couldn‘t afford to bring most of their stuff from their former home to their new small place. Under the Communist administration, many precious objects were destroyed including the antique furniture. But most of all, their farms suffered from the Communist take-over. When the State farms started to use them, they were in a perfect shape. Thirty years after that, most of the buildings were in such a devastated state that a bulldozer had to tear them down. Because of her family background, Eva was never accepted on a university, so she started to work as a laboratory technician at the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University in Prague. The head of her laboratory was Professor Jaroslav Hořejší, thanks to whom the whole team lived in a relaxed atmosphere and Mrs. Warausová has never been persecuted for her background or her opinions.