Jindřiška Čechová

"Uranium was being shipped to Russia. Either it was taken to Hamburg on a ship or it was taken directly to Russia. That was probably to different places. The driver told me, for example... He didn't come for two months to get his pay and he said: 'I was in the Urals.' So, it was taken by car and the Russians paid for the transport. But our drivers went there too, not just Russians. But most of those drivers were demobilized from Svoboda's army."

"It was very difficult there [in Kojetín]. There, three armies came together from all sides. From Kroměříž came the Romanians, from Brno came the Czechs, from Tovačov came the Russians. Then the Germans blew up the railway bridge over the Morava, so there were trains from all sides in Kojetín. The misfortune was that there was a sugar factory and a distillery in Kojetín. The sugar factory was bombed, so it was on fire. That was terrible. It was terrible when they shot up the cemetery, it was such a smell. That was terrible."

"People liked Masaryk so much back then that when he had a holiday, everyone put his picture and a candle outside the window. Masaryk was even in Kojetín once. We were just playing on the lawn and he came with his grandson, or if it was his son, I don't know, but he might have been about twelve years old. So, he laughed at us and said: 'Are you playing?' Then we realized that the president was here. They came on horseback, just the two of them, no escort, no security. People liked Masaryk very much."